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mircea_popescu believes "handmade" and "art" to be unrelated ; one can have industrial art (such as, eminently, the z80, and such as very much NOT warhola's crapolade)
mircea_popescu: this piece, evidently industrially made ; but i do not regret it, for it has all the advantages that promises (uniformity, solidity, etc). handmade is pretty but fragile, nothing wrong with it but diff class.
mircea_popescu: and item seems a+ grade lead glass, proper thickness, very solid.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the item is quiote well made. so smoke goes from slider into side of conical shape, towards top. bottom of this conical shape has dozen+ round cylinders which let out into the bottom bowl. this bottom bowl is sealed off from the suction tube atop on the direct path ; the only respondency is through the four bubbles, which have a low and a high feeder and let out smoke into the top suction tube
mircea_popescu: im fucking arresting him if he ever shows up, that's for sure.
mircea_popescu: so then how months i don't get it, you mean the other coin from yest ?
mircea_popescu: this now begs the questrion whether if i send my valkiries they would somehow manifest liquidity. god knows i had no problem dealing as much as i wanted in buenos aires. nor here. nor apparently anywhere (except when it comes to wiring to bb, which is becoming the lulz of all time, somehow)
mircea_popescu: were you trying to not meet people in person or what the fuck was the thinking anyway.
mircea_popescu: Mocky very stupid idea. why not say something here ffs.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile cairo has been there for a long fucking time.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i appeared ~that~ fierce. i just think they were polite. ~everything i hear of qatar strikes me with an overpowering scent of what in teh old world was called nouveau riche.
mircea_popescu: see, the more i hear the more i prefer the egyptians. i took girl to evidently man-only tea-and-shisheria. lotta old dudes looked on in silence, bothered me none.
mircea_popescu: and transparently because while the girls were in that-car-overthere by themselves it was one thing, but once it was with-that-dude suddenly they were forcibly confronted with their own personal failure, and that smells too much like death.
mircea_popescu: i can't find it now, but im pretty sure i recounted this tale of me + chet climbing in wrong (girls-only) car in cairo subway. made the girls giddy, but the ~dudes~ in the other cars nearly threw a riot.
mircea_popescu: i believe it's more in the line of seinfeld's "everyone can be great friends if there's no possiblity of sex"
mircea_popescu: and "disk" is no solution, china owns indonesia notwithstanding hilarity posturing to the contrary.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for as long as only slanty eyes has horses, all horse races however drafted will have their fucking horses winning.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're naive if you think "asic resistant" will break "chinese monopoly". you don't like that, get someone else to make some chips.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it wasn't urgent, but what do you mean not serious. i am seriouse guise.
mircea_popescu: then again, considering how much arab cunt you got to see anyway....
mircea_popescu: well yes, irl there's no such thing as proof of a negative.
mircea_popescu: "don't come telling me there's no even prime numbers larger than my mother!!! COME BACK WHEN YOU FOUND SOME!!!"
mircea_popescu: so all the mathematicians who prove negatives, such as "there's no circle with square corners" are ultimately failures at mathematicing ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's not fucking "people are impressed". it's always "well, should Y question be raised, z opposition is available to it, and it'll fucking stick". the latter part, that's success.
mircea_popescu: all success ever is, because of all success EVER COULD POSSIBLY BE, is the reduction of such a case to a specified alternative among the alternatives.
mircea_popescu: now, at ~that~ juncture, would you say the matter will be adjudicated as "damn you idiots, qatar tried and nobody fucking helped" or as "damn you qatar, fucking idiot, people tried you just won't fucking listen" ?
mircea_popescu: at which point i say "bullshit!" and if the point's at all contentious i point to you.
mircea_popescu: so they're looking into what qatar's been doing with itself, and the discussion isn't going all that well, at which juncture qatar says "fuck you guise, we were ~at least trying~ and nobody would fucking help!"
mircea_popescu: suppose there's the forum-in-heaven, exactly like this one, but in heaven. every agent (ie, entity capable of self-reflection) has an account in ~that~ wot ; and ultimate-form-mp sits presiding, in its ultimate form of whatever it is, "alien dragon being of pure energy".
mircea_popescu: Mocky let's engage in the following gedankenexperiment.
mircea_popescu: ye olde italian "chi non mangia in compagnia o è un ladro, o è una spia" proverb specifically says that the one reason for systematically quiet is affraid-of-own-web-of-lies.
mircea_popescu: guy seemed like "honest, quiet man", then seemed like obvious expert scammer. because that's the problem with sticking to the "honest quiet man" schtick -- only scammers are actually that.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which imo is ~exactly~ "unicode, implemented as best we could"
mircea_popescu: imo if you're going to use "new processor, cuz simple" it will BETTER not have 1980s imbecile nonsense like "floating point"
mircea_popescu: "oh, cuz then you can't have ACCESS CONTROLS!!!" "oh ?" "so we won't implement those, either" "ah i see. and which is the store where they don't have fish again ?"
mircea_popescu: who THE FUCK thought it's ok for the fs to not take arbitrary indices, like, ever, in the whole thirty seconds history of sitting-here-quietly-and-thinking-abnout-computers as it stretches from 1971 onwards.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fermeture provisoire pour cause de fermeture definitive!
mircea_popescu: cuz we don't have the manpower to write ~general purpose fs~. we don't even have the manpower to write fucking ~narrow purpose fs~, for lack of the manpower to fucking read patches before we mis-add numbers!
mircea_popescu: until anhero comes by with the ~correct~ general purpose fs, mysql-on-ext4 is the way to go.
mircea_popescu: this one is the good one, as it's actually correctly designed.
mircea_popescu: however, the db is not at fault for our forebearers being dropped on the head.
mircea_popescu: i am not saying very specific applications (such as bitcoin, due to blocks being b locks) can't benefit from purpose made fs. nor am i saying the extant ~fs~ are defensible and not an atrocity against sense and taste.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's a journaling fs with indexes. which is why i like it.
mircea_popescu: i beleive this Jnrrnnv Ltcmuex, esq shall become a character.
mircea_popescu: and since you got that, you also use markup and configuration, which are similarily separate, and there you go, your naive "i am an idiot who must make his own nails by hand" "files on disk" has four... directories is it ?
mircea_popescu: and you are doing a+b. you are taking three different sources of data and merging them together, because it is ~deeply inconvenient~ to store comments together with articles.