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mircea_popescu: you get stability in the sense that you agree to be a carrot moving at speed on a vegetable grater.
mircea_popescu: if you're doing 10kN forward, you can within 2-3 seconds do 10kN backward.
mircea_popescu: well of course. you can just plug the power backwards, who's to know.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag let's see... anywehre you go, there's a ~1k lane highway available. and it's on ~ 50 or 100 levels. so 50k lanes at a minimum. what fucking traffic.
mircea_popescu: traffic isn't so big a problem - easeir to make autoflown heli than car.
mircea_popescu: (flying a fixed wing is similar, except the arrangement has signigicant - if not gravitational - inertia. a tiny heli does not.)
mircea_popescu: i briefly considered a two seater thing a few years back
mircea_popescu: "There is no reason that a programmer should know that this rewrite is needed. On the other hand, finding that performance was not as expected should not have led the manager of the programmer in question to conclude, as he did, that Lisp was the wrong language." ahaha what ?!
mircea_popescu: "Altering the faulty declaration improved the performance of the entire system by 20%." << umm... go hang ?
mircea_popescu: are you seriously going to tell me that the compiler fails to identify this optimization ?!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (proclaim '(type (simple-array fixnum (4 4 4)) *ar3*))
mircea_popescu: The three arrays happen to be of fixed size, which is reflected in the following correct declaration:
mircea_popescu: This example is a mistake that is easy to make. The programmer here did not declare his arrays as fully as he could have. Therefore, each array access was about as slow as a function call when it should have been a few instructions. The original declaration was as follows:
mircea_popescu: "sovereignity is the ability to convince lazy idiots that symbols have meaning".
mircea_popescu: all the talk neglects to notice how teh usg is force to try and replace cars - autonomous for 1500 miles - with rubber band machines, autonomous for maybe 50. at GREAT expense.
mircea_popescu: as someone once said, "their tricks work for them only a short distance of their run, and for us the whole run."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nope, shoot them down with the same rays usa shot down soviet strategic bombers
mircea_popescu: forget this. no more centralized manufacturing of anything.
mircea_popescu: i want to have more landing locations than existing aircraft.
mircea_popescu: private jets all the way. private helicopters, cessnas, fuck it.
mircea_popescu: fuck boeing nevertheless. i do not wish to even hear of bullshit "airport" to have "tsa" at.
mircea_popescu: "C is therefore a language for which it is easy to write a decent compiler"
mircea_popescu: fuck caterpillar. and boeing. and the whole fucking rest of them.
mircea_popescu: no, we have city-run stell mill like the city power network,
mircea_popescu: only reason those are excused is because ancient tradition. otherwise, caterpillar as loathsome as john deere as loathsome as monsanto as loathsome as mpaa
mircea_popescu: at least the usg, from the president to the last goon, knows they're sitting on a prayer
mircea_popescu: last fucking thing the world of today needed would be some unfucked & unfuckable, nose-in-the-sky self sufficient engineer derps with delusions of success.
mircea_popescu: whether the rat existed yet or not, they still aspired to be a rat.
mircea_popescu: i'd have much preferred it if that quote read "had we done what mp said we shoudl do the first time he called us idiots back in 2013, we'd now be in a position where we could almost pass for human"
mircea_popescu: bluematt left, apparently. which brings the bipedal count to ~0
mircea_popescu: "And outside the US there were major Lisp efforts, including Cambridge Lisp and Le-Lisp. The humble US grassroots effort did not seek membership from outside the US, and one can safely regard that as a mistake. Frankly, it never occurred to the Common Lisp group that this purely American effort would be of interest outside the US, because very few of the group saw a future in AI that would extend the needs for a standa
mircea_popescu: there's no engineering brilliance that may excuse that, is there.
mircea_popescu: "The largest criticisms of Symbolics in the article are that Symbolics believed AI would take off and that Symbolics mistakenly pushed its view that proprietary hardware was the way to go for AI."
mircea_popescu: "Bitonic has sold over 200 000 bitcoins and is celebrating by giving away one bitcoin! PART 4"
mircea_popescu: (fwiw, /me doesn't even recognise such distinction can be had)
mircea_popescu: da fuck is embarassing about this ? i say "i'm sorry, who are you again ?" a dozen times a day, if it's a day i mostly sleep.
mircea_popescu: be remembered and also toe curlingly embarrassing to admit that you cannot recognise who you are talking to."
mircea_popescu: "Any lecturer who serves his time will probably graduate hundreds, if not thousands of students. Mostly they merge into a blur; like those paintings of crowd scenes where the leading faces are clearly picked out and the rest just have iconic representations. This anonymity can be embarrassing when some past student hails you by name and you really haven't got the foggiest idea of who he or she is. It's both nice to
mircea_popescu: water it carefully from your own sink and grow your own pig".