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mircea_popescu: mod6> who cares << he was very popular with a certain crowd.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.shinohai.2:bbe1a16b5c07434099cac05b64ef6899b29989f8c8605c6667823d538db6809d
mircea_popescu: nohup catches the sighup and lets the program continue
mircea_popescu: but i still can't be arsed to do the actual math for it, so whatevs.
mircea_popescu: no, i just said that i would expect on the basis of guesswork for indium -group metals to work out as the thinnest functional mesh
mircea_popescu: well that's what it was, some derps came out with what struck me on first sight as a sort of "gasoline saving magnets", ie these superthin meshes that'll "protect your monitor from nsa spying"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's a minimal thickness as a function of the material involved that can be used.
mircea_popescu: anyways. the original discussion was about how you can't make a mesh arbitrarily fine and expect it to still shield anything.
mircea_popescu: and you were going to distinguish between far uv and close x-rays on some sort of a basis. other than "cuz i say 3*10^16 and fu"
mircea_popescu: as king arthur once said to trusty sir belvedere, "This new learning amazes me"
mircea_popescu: so i can not cut a hole into a faraday cage with a proton beam.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what is the difference between ungrounded faraday cage and dipole antenna ?
mircea_popescu: the problem of penetration isn't the only consideration here. what you're saying is akin to the proposition that a cpu is only hot on the surface, so only a fool would connect it to 5kg of copper.
mircea_popescu: you don't get an out of jail free card re wires just because "but officer, i needed smaller holes"
mircea_popescu: yes, but smaller holes and thinner wires are unrelated items here.
mircea_popescu: an arbitrarily thin filament of an arbitrary length is NOT grounded merely on the grounds that you connected it to a pipe somewhere.
mircea_popescu: jurov that's just an engineering rule of thumb, based on some assumptions.
mircea_popescu: and "insulated" is a function of conductivity, which is a function of thickness.
mircea_popescu: understand : a very thin, insulated fillament is not a piece of shielding, but in turn an antenna.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that thing can't possibly be anything but a scam at this point, of the "magic doubler address" ilk.
mircea_popescu: what does it even mean ? there was a fork! there's ten forks a day. wtf.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that is the most cretinous thing i ever heard.
mircea_popescu: i am thinking : maybe including a comment line as "this patch is intended to be applied on prev hash blabla" would do it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yup. or any other thing. here's a thought : once one hash differs, the ones downstream will because it includes the different hash
mircea_popescu: sorry alf, you're part of a standards group. this re-do work 10k times is par for the cutpurse.
mircea_popescu: punkman no, cart is currently put before horse. sounds like putting cart and horse back in the right places
mircea_popescu: hoping that mod6 will save you from inclusion arbitrarily is a lot fucking weaker than just having the proper control of only signing in the test branch, and choosing where yhou sign
mircea_popescu: whenever you sign something on the main trunk, you are swearing with your life it is good to go. \
mircea_popescu: make no mistake about it : it is NOT the user who relies on foundation curation. it is THE CODER.
mircea_popescu: punkman so someone can write experimental code without risking it showing up in a production environment and getting negrated for it.
mircea_popescu: they complicate things in the correct manner, however.
mircea_popescu: ratger than expecting users to use any other buttons than the buttons, design the system so that it actually uses the buttons properly.
mircea_popescu: this way people can base on THAT tree and know for certain they will never end up included in production.
mircea_popescu: it is increasingly obvious, to me, that there should be a new genesis made, signed by a specially generated identity, "test".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just making a point for the benefit of the fox here.
mircea_popescu: unlike you, i have explicit author names and explicit trust relations with them. so... bald men shouldn't throw rox!
mircea_popescu actually got awoken once because the damned things were wailing exactly like someone trying to shove a baby through a pasta strainer.
mircea_popescu: did you run electricity "by hand" from the plant to your shaver or just not shaving ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes eh hush, you've not done something by hand yet today.
mircea_popescu: what tourney, "which can imitate a five year old being torn limb from limb closer to life" ?
mircea_popescu: turns out there's exactly 0 demand for her as an 'entrepreneur' or w/e it was, so i guess the cats await.
mircea_popescu: ok, so chick thinks she's special, a lifetime of progenitorial slavery not fit for the likes of her. fine! jolly good!
mircea_popescu: after all... woman face is supposed to not be wrinkly, right ?
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me, meditating upon alf's observation, that there's probably massive evolution pressure on this, to the level of the evolutionary pressure on breast size.
mircea_popescu: redditard has brief moment of clarity : "I never realised how much I hate democracy until I had to endure idiots (like myself) insisting that their voice be heard regarding the blocksize despite not having any of the required technical knowledge."
mircea_popescu: "My startup failed, and this is what it feels like : the most banal shit ever"
mircea_popescu: imagien the productivity gains if all the apple products were bricked.
mircea_popescu: lol BingoBoingo. give it time, overnight dangerousness is usually obtained in a decade or two.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure they have a perfect user. they don't aim to anything.
mircea_popescu: an entire "culture" of retards lies buried there, reddit, cracked, wikipedia, twitter, the bell bottoms and disco hair of the 2000s.
mircea_popescu: turns out mps banning you sticks, you banning them doesn't. who knew.
mircea_popescu: the [sort of] people who bought slashdot will soon buy twitter and that's that.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo eh, dangerous for whom ? twitter is a goner, they're not making money, they can't make money, the share is collapsing, a 2020 with twitter still around is an impossibility.