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mircea_popescu: i guess it is, at that.
asciilifeform: incl. in old trilema
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the logical conclusion would be to say old men revert into dysfunctional womanhood.
mircea_popescu: now, the generals are similar : for the benefit of "oh, it's directly readable" they lose out on the all-important, paramount consideration, "but not by the enemmy"
asciilifeform: ( in the 'detonate' case, it isn't clear what enemy gets from reversing your die if you used correctly-built publickeytronics )
mircea_popescu: on fails to overshadow the fact that individually speaking if you're going to sink nine months of blood + three of fat into the project, you totally fucking want the very very best available.
mircea_popescu: to explain ourselves : the coy behaviour is defined as the spurious pretense of sexual disinterest put forth by a universally-interested machine ; and it is counterproductive because while it does in fact increase (somewhat) the success with above-average value partners, it entirely ruins any perpsective of success with the highest value partners. that this may (arguable, and i doubt it) sum to positive over a larege populati
asciilifeform: senile old brezhnevs insisting on using plain vs crypto pnoje , yes. tho i was thinking of crypto in weapons systems and other unattended 'get magic packet, detonate' items.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why or wherefore, it's about as counterintuitive as the coy behaviour in females.
mircea_popescu: somehow crypto discipline is impossible for military staffs. except for the okw, everyone has trouble with it, be the soviets talking to sub base or the ustards talking totheir "socialites" or w/e they call the tired old bags.
mircea_popescu: would matter a lot more if the us actually used crypto.
asciilifeform: ( if your cryptotron ~branches~ -- potentially very interesting things happen )
asciilifeform: hence the recent interest in 'what happens to crypto when single-event fault' etc
mircea_popescu: noyhing better than a door protected by 8 flawed locks.
mircea_popescu: kinda why the chinese have to take them apart.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform discovered this when digging in recent ada lit
a111: Logged on 2017-11-09 16:51 mircea_popescu: performance of the density kind is an anti-model for rocketry. on the contrary, large, wide edge process like the z80s much better fit for space usage.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-09#1735222 << returning briefly upstack, there's a 'seekrit' bit of hilarity : usg actually moving away from old, classic 'z80-style' dies, and into 'let's have modern density, so we can run javaturds, let ibm make 'space-grade' ppc , etc -- but that's ok, we'll use 8 in tandem ' ☝︎
mircea_popescu: they've no balls cuz they've no penis and vice versa, and ultimately because no testosterone so every bit of soy sauce they pick up from environment makes the titties sag a little hurtlier.
mircea_popescu: so the balls and the penis are related ? i thought so!
asciilifeform: dun need balls to bomb ~defenseless orcs
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so let me get this straight : you think beta loves his cock cage because "no balls", and NOT because "small cock" ? these are somehow different ?
mircea_popescu will use this henceforth to distinguish the item from europe.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought it 'lost' because noballs ( rather than rockets-not-rockety-enuff )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they ARE looking for weaknesses. there's a reason usg lost south china sea.
mircea_popescu: finally, the zone.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, it occurs to me, euroZONE is the perfect word for it, isn't it ?
asciilifeform: ( in almost every case i can think of, 'design from 0' is cheaper than 'logical reverse'. so the latter is ~only done when you are specifically looking for weaknesses or otherwise items present only in the original , vs the spec )
asciilifeform: i'd expect. the trick is that almost no one has ever any reason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the chinese have teh manpower to do it, if organized.
asciilifeform: in the 'logical' sense , original z80 was only ~recently~ publicly reversed
mircea_popescu: performance of the density kind is an anti-model for rocketry. on the contrary, large, wide edge process like the z80s much better fit for space usage. ☟︎
asciilifeform: also gotta distinguish b/w the 2 types of reversing ( did we have thread ? ) -- sov-style clone is CONSIDERABLY easier than proper logical reverse
asciilifeform: ( rather than 'performance' or whatever nonsense )
asciilifeform: half the reason for the ultra-dense vlsi thing , i suspect, is to make reversing a headache
asciilifeform: at least in 1980s they were. nfi re nao.
asciilifeform: idk that usg any longer even uses items not of chinese make to begin with
mircea_popescu: ~only reason the saudis even bought the crap in the first place.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-08 14:18 mircea_popescu: " “The Saudi’s will not be able to link the S-400 with Saudi’s current (US and Europe-sourced) infrastructure, nor will they be able to connect the S-400 with US systems." << says who the everloving fuck.
mircea_popescu: scary enough as it is, the hopes of the us as to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-08#1722633 are entirely spurious. teh chinese have long reversed all us military chips. ☝︎
asciilifeform: if yer thing is multilayered you'd ideally have the microscopy done in same house.
asciilifeform: speaking of, asciilifeform learned that folx in guangdong will laser-decap ICs for fiddybux/ea.
mircea_popescu: strangely there seem to be some extant records where he himself thinks the same!
mircea_popescu: communist consumer might have not been the end-all be-all, i find myself sometimes suspecting.
ben_vulpes: "i don't know much, but i paid attention in materials and machine design while everyone else was browsing facebook and copying homework out of the solution guide"
asciilifeform: i mean, the thing looks multiaxis-machined
mircea_popescu: no dude, "having gone to school" tech as opposed to "i heard on youtube" tech
asciilifeform: oh hm these look interesting, ben_vulpes , sorta like jet compressor
ben_vulpes: or maybe just maybe have a care for the final product and take minimal steps to minimize pre-cooking out of volatiles
mircea_popescu: in retrospect seems a lot like not having a knife, "cutting bread on this veg peeler is so hard"
ben_vulpes: but what, give up, sacrifice all efficiency because there's always more gas down the road?
mircea_popescu: but it is possible to use a cone plane instead of a 1dimensional blade
ben_vulpes: not really possible to exist without producing waste heat either
asciilifeform: not really physically possible to grind without heating
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yep, yours is teh correct solution.
ben_vulpes: also burr grinder does not cook the coffee while grinding it, ever notice how the bladed model leaves the grounds...warm?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have that type of snake.
mircea_popescu: he has a point, i hadn't thought of that. exactly like pepper mill, have two cones in each other, adjustable distance.
ben_vulpes: why, when the burr grinder is an excellent solution
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually "short" snake is flexible enough to go through toilet water trap deliberately for this reason.
asciilifeform: why not take to logical conclusion, and use millstones
ben_vulpes: also, blade pulverizes, burr shears. better extraction with the latter method.
ben_vulpes: ah well yeah, especially the bladed models are going to produce lots of high velocity particles
asciilifeform: but i haven't tried grinding wet ginsung or whatnot
asciilifeform: ahahahahahaha i have that one
mircea_popescu: https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Beach-Fresh-Grind-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B005EPRFKO << the dead item, since we're doing this.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu earlier suggested , 'boltzmann distrib' of coffee speck velocities, almost certainly has high end that grinds pieces of your vessel into the output ☟︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: the burrs are steel in mine
asciilifeform: but you also gotta be able and willing to lift the throne ( old houses in usa have no cleanplug ) etc. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: if this is true, why not just fix
mircea_popescu: not the kind that turn dishes green, i'd have imagined ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most clogs happen metre or two from the arse
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that looks like a starbuckstron. which i always suspected has a part in explaining why their swill tastes like burned plastic
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform drain does 100m drop over a mile, calculate the force a column of water puts upon it, obtain higher value than kitchen garbage disposal unit applies
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes is that polycarbonate ?
asciilifeform: lolwhy, the drain is a hole in the galleon's captain's cabin, hangs over the sea ?
mircea_popescu: that's the counter-counter of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733641 : it is impossible to clog drain here. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( phunphakt : in plebeland usa, it is not wholly unheard of for folx to live for weeks or months in a house without working drains. shit in buckets, dishes turn green, etc )
mircea_popescu: the tub has no drain an' erryone looks pretty drained.
asciilifeform: fact being, the tub had a drain then. today, faucet still runs, but no drain.
mircea_popescu: notrly the poles. more like proper reamings.
mircea_popescu: what good catholic didn't have a dozen kids then.
shinohai: asciilifeform: perfect for that bourgeois blend
mircea_popescu: takes a lot of effort to reproduce today the kitchen of 1880 middle class polish housewife.
mircea_popescu: the sadness of "modern technology" is that it fails miserably at things that aren't THAT technologically advanced.
asciilifeform: shinohai: they had exactly like this grinder in the timis 'museum of communist konsoomer'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform didn't think of it. actually, had 0 expectation i'd end up with a dissolved-and-recombined surface of the inside of the thing, from smooth to matte.
asciilifeform: this was described in the altschuller b00k
asciilifeform: oh hm if need to pulverize with juice still in, can try freezing
shinohai: Yeah, 0 plastic parts. Had the thing like 5 years now
mircea_popescu: so wait, i got really good clovges and ima put them into a "make-them-like-the-walmart-ones" tool ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but general solution for this (salt) not usable. and i don't eat enough sugar for that alternative + i don't eat the white hygroscopic kind
shinohai: I have one of these, best one I have ever bought: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A6CP1HI/ref=sspa_dk_detail_2?psc=1
asciilifeform: ( or is the juice necessary )
mircea_popescu: needs fine powder and too juicy to grind well in mortar so give it a shot.
mircea_popescu: was the idea.
asciilifeform: incidentally why ground the thing in coffee grinder, vs blender ( with the glass bulb ) ?
mircea_popescu: it's what they used to do.
asciilifeform: so can haz kitchen bronze, then.
mircea_popescu: reason i even know "cuisinart" is that they used to make metal tools. except stopped.