asciilifeform: who said 'wait' ?

asciilifeform: even if i could speak to them.

asciilifeform: and i could not necessarily persuade them that it is a good idea.

asciilifeform: but it is not clear to me that those who pick up the pieces will choose to do anything resembling civilization.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has several useful articles re: how various unrealities will have to collapse in order for real people to be built again

asciilifeform: what, you think ~their~ students, ~will~ ?? ☟︎

asciilifeform: do you recall the thread re: how people born in '90s cannot think worth half a damn ?

asciilifeform: and 1000 years - 1880.

asciilifeform: i fully expect that it will take 100+ yrs of AGGRESSIVE sanity to create the peoplecaliber of 1980 again.

asciilifeform: the OLD world.

asciilifeform: list of books for ~what~ ?

asciilifeform: trinque: i think i lost the head of the thread?

asciilifeform: l0l autogenned spamola

asciilifeform: he has a good grip of military craft, and understands that only idiots engage enemy on ~his~ strong turf ☟︎

asciilifeform: i actually understand very well why mircea_popescu does not want any of this to EVER become about armies of trainable fungible folks.

asciilifeform: call it what you like.

asciilifeform: while i have some to give.

asciilifeform: all i can offer is this other kind of force.

asciilifeform: armies is what the other side has.

asciilifeform: i hate to disappoint folks, but i'm .. not made of book

asciilifeform: this is mebbe half a shelf.

asciilifeform: trinque: go, raid.

asciilifeform: this is kindergarten-basic.

asciilifeform: take out gsm citywide for a month.

asciilifeform: if yer gonna jam, have 100 of'em, with solar panels, dropped by quadcopter on rooftops.

asciilifeform: re: jammer: idiocy

asciilifeform: rereading the thread re: the 5 necessary spare asciilifeforms leads me to ask related q, where do we get a spare mircea_popescu if our current one breaks ! ☟︎

asciilifeform: mega-film.

asciilifeform: longer than 'star wars.'

asciilifeform: four-parter, took, iirc, ~40 years to make !

asciilifeform: there is an excellent scene of 16 c. horse-drawn impalement in the pl film 'Ogniem i mieczem' ('with fire and sword').

asciilifeform: but historians in the audience are welcome to correct me.

asciilifeform: the last instance i recall of a formal sentence of impalement was, iirc, in 1740s, and it was commuted at the last minute to beheading

asciilifeform: for instance, you don't want splinters on the pole, the condemned bleeds faster.

asciilifeform: the stake was in ru penal code through the 18th c. so we happen to know a good bit of craft concerning how & what.

asciilifeform: (typically, tree was chosen to be ~telephone pole wide. so that victim would have to wait 2-3 days for the bones to spread, or to die of thirst)

asciilifeform: it'd be over in minutes.

asciilifeform: tepes would never sit a man down on such a stake.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i will have you know that yours is a very thin tree.

asciilifeform: (the games industry mostly left this part of the world.)

asciilifeform: but at least doesn't ever have to leave house.

asciilifeform: now works on dour industrial control crud.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he was 'old-school' '90s games man, hand-optimized asm for consoles, 3d engines from scratch, that kinda thing.

asciilifeform: (though spending will still suck donkey balls then)

asciilifeform: those thousands will buy some very spiffy tshirts when btc goes to penny.

asciilifeform: spending suxxx.

asciilifeform: can't blame'im either

asciilifeform: PeterL: i dun think mircea_popescu believes in spending

asciilifeform: PeterL: prolly program ? i don't recall folks having to be paid to ~play~ it?

asciilifeform: (incidentally, any mail re: ciphers ??) ☟︎

asciilifeform: perhaps he'll cough up a cipher for us.

asciilifeform: maybe p even takes payment in the tree bark he eats

asciilifeform: perhaps !

asciilifeform: l0l mircea_popescu thinks he could afford my brother , ahaha.

asciilifeform: ~ mircea_popescu's age.

asciilifeform: i only got 1 brother.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: is not a fool.

asciilifeform: eh he knew it would not live forever.

asciilifeform: ( he went, so to speak, perelman, some time ago. )

asciilifeform: or so thinks my brother, who for ~20yrs has cared for very little other than go.

asciilifeform: it will still be a few yrs. before it becomes impossible to play on the net.

asciilifeform: bulldozer, in the end, always wins

asciilifeform: they'd better, given that they burn out at, what, 19

asciilifeform: think ballet.

asciilifeform: very few pro go folks have other theorems, they start at 5 y.o.

asciilifeform: (and to exist in the conditions where playing is a thing, for which the money is. but the money is strictly secondary.)

asciilifeform: they want ~to play~

asciilifeform: thing is, money is not much of a motivator to pro go players

asciilifeform: or that.

asciilifeform: (well, no, i will be surprised ~if i learn~, but not ~that it happened~)

asciilifeform: but at any rate i would not be surprised if one day i learn that lee sedol was told by a little bird that if he wins he will have an accident like go seigen in '61

asciilifeform: aha, linked strictly for it

asciilifeform: much as i would like to prove some variety of shenanigans re: this bet, i cannot.

asciilifeform: covered in shit from walking through heathen world, and they never wash, so still smell it

asciilifeform would be quite stimulated to learn who was responsible for the ~30 btc flurry of 'yes' bets in the 12 hrs or so before the game

asciilifeform: https://bitbet.us/bet/1249/alphago-will-defeat-lee-sedol-overall-in-march << mega-commentz lulz.

asciilifeform: ditto userland.

asciilifeform: fwiw.

asciilifeform: in the sense of not invoking dll loader at any point - YES.

asciilifeform: (re: earlier, i case anyone thinks that winblowz is 'too hard', i have win8 kernel drivers built with GCC and ~zero microshit code~)

asciilifeform: ty mircea_popescu . and my offer to cover it with own blood - stands.

asciilifeform: i demonstrated how.

asciilifeform: in fact, you don't need me for this any moar, can do yourself.

asciilifeform: hell, rotorize.

asciilifeform could easily sanitize the thing, if .... etc.

asciilifeform: that i reversed in 2012 ?!

asciilifeform: which... is COMPATIBLE with ezusb !?!?! >>. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428437 ☝︎

asciilifeform: eerom has an an2135sc by cypress

asciilifeform: holy shit

asciilifeform: which is not too far off.

asciilifeform: hey, englishers call gurlz 'kitty'

asciilifeform: well, aside from the motherland burning and my being powerless to do anything about it on account of sitting on a sharpened telephone pole, i'm having a marvelous day !11

asciilifeform: gotta go get moar.

asciilifeform: so nfi.

asciilifeform: *spent

asciilifeform: i've spend my counterfactual-juice for the day

asciilifeform: or java.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i did not scream, we'd prolly be struggling with some 'golang' prb horror now.

asciilifeform: from his dirigible fleet.