asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'preoccupation with crimes' also comes in diff. variants. consider e.g. lafonde, vs the typical ameri-suburbanite who has never so much as personally seen a homo-lafondicus with naked eye but nevertheless fixated , etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who are in this context 'reds' and 'blues' ? ( presumably not the 2 usg armies mircea_popescu earlier argued have long ago merged into 1 ? )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suspect that to guarantee pleasant-to-read diff, one has to specifically write proggy in certain style, and that the problem aint otherwise solvable in the general case
asciilifeform: aha. would require a sub-line difftron tho, as i understand.
asciilifeform: re diffs -- it ~is~ possible to make a 'any small change WILL result in a small diffism' diff algo. but, i suspect , not possible to make it naked-eye readable. and, conversely, naked-eye readable diff is , i suspect, necessarily ~same as the classical.
asciilifeform: ( e.g. say you want to compactly represent moves of blocks of text. nao you need... a stack ? etc )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-25#1904673 << asciilifeform several times tried his hand at 'what if nonclassical diff', these are in the logs. but mircea_popescu barfed, and i dun even disagree, thus far nobody's thought of a moar human-readable diffism than the traditional one☝︎
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in argentine lulz : asciilifeform notices rubber leg from lappy loose on desk. thinks 'could've sworn i glued this one last mo'. grabs tube of cyanoacrylate, same as with which. then notices 'industria argentina' on tube, turns out it's the 1 bought in BingoBoingostan! i had nfi it was physically possible to fuck up even ~this~...
asciilifeform goes back to writing test cases set for ch18
asciilifeform: when patient dun seem to even blink from cone insertion , the natural response is to give him bigger cone. i fully expect the process will continue in this vein☟︎
asciilifeform: seems like 'respectable academics'(tm)(r) will put up with just about any diameter of spiked anal road cone tho, considering that they put up with 'pay elsevier page fees and in exchange they own 100% rights to errything you printed' etc
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-24#1904623 << on paper same in all of reich academitardia; but mit is specifically famous for enforcing the 'you dun own yer face' thing. it's how the bolix story came to be, for instance.☝︎
asciilifeform: oh hrm loox like BingoBoingo already linked.
asciilifeform: chonkin: both on paper and with naked eye, the 'what is police for' q is not any kind of puzzler. it is obv. other than to the willfully blind.
asciilifeform: problem exists strictly for folx who didn't get the memo, aha
asciilifeform: chonkin: police have 0 to do with specific plebe and his problems with specific thief or axe maniac etc. they are there to uphold the regime. somehow this is clear to people in ru, zimbabwe, etc. but ameritards have various elaborate illusions on the subj.
asciilifeform: from horse's mouth, 'the duty to provide public services is owed to the public at large, and, absent a special relationship between the police and an individual, no specific legal duty exists'
asciilifeform: chonkin: 'warren vs district of columbia' (1981)
asciilifeform found substantial similification for ch18 mechanism, goes to put it in
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 'tailhook' people, pre-clintonization, had a proverb, where iirc 'what you dun know, will not only happily kill you , but eat you for lunch and spit out the bones'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'ma guess it folded the day lolmart realized it , too, could stock a chinese soldering iron
asciilifeform: btw i find it interesting, you go on a train ride in washingtonistan and count the ipnojes, 6 outta 7 have smashed glass. apparently even the 50bux or so that it costs if yer hands grow from arse and cant do it yerself, is toomuch for the typical ipnojist..
asciilifeform: in the very last yrs, ratshack tried to live by offering ipnoje glass replacement. problem is , chinese d00dz in open air market do it 2x cheaper.
asciilifeform: with coupla drawers of parts, under 10cm of dust, in the back
asciilifeform: the ham4lyf d00dz even in '90 already considered ratshack a ripoff, and went to buy/sell the junkyard-scavenged parts 100% from ea. other
asciilifeform: iirc ratshack already was a zombie in 1990 or so. the wonder is how long the zombie walked, not that it finally crumbled
asciilifeform: ( iirc mircea_popescu found 1 down south at some pt, but there is no resupply for'em, the co long ago folded , asciilifeform went and bought ~entire contents of 1 for a hundy or so )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ratshack afaik 100% dead in north amer
asciilifeform: '90s irons were solid, in comparison even with that opteron. e.g. i still have a 486 that worx like the day it was new, not even recapped ever
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y'know full well what 'they put in place'. single-chip disposable rubbishes that konsoomer is expected to buy and shuddup etc
asciilifeform: funnily enuff, even repairable-period crapple parts go for hefty $ nao
asciilifeform: entirely inaccessible if you dun know where. if you know where, coupla bux ea.
asciilifeform: ( errything else is either standard catalogue '80s piece, or PAL )
asciilifeform: tho since we're on subj, i'ma add that the bolix, for what its faults, was entirely repairable, the only 'magic' part that aint off-shelf is the cpu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu was hardline skeptic of subj from start iirc
asciilifeform: lol ffs why wouldja re-create the whole thing.
asciilifeform: sorta why submarine has lathe etc. on board.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: will add that 'peanut' can grow to 'pea-elephant' if -- and this time verily cometh -- there is not a replacement on hand.
asciilifeform: ( and i was grrr cuz expected '5 minutes', but see rohs )
asciilifeform: ftr recapping my 'tyan' took maybe half hr, counting the photographies.
asciilifeform: xray takes 1min or so; looking at the balls, maybe hr, i'ma pro bono. beyond that prolly not worth.
asciilifeform: even the satellite people only seem to give a shit up to 7 yrs or so, re iron life
asciilifeform: ~nobody seems to actually study this q.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you end up throwing it, feel free to send for xray ( if thing is >35cm on the long edge, may have to saw it ) , then can say 'solder ball this-here unballed' etc. valuable old irons aging data point, potentially.
