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Chillum: mats: I am going to hook it to
a serial gps chip and make
a tiny super low power war walker
☟︎ ascii_field: funkenstein_: expecting an answer to this question in
a sentence is the height of folly
mats: you're not seriously going to run wifi or
a webserver on it are you?
mats: 16:04:57 <+Chillum> I just got an ESP8266,
a $4 chip that has
a microcontroller that can run either C or Lua with 512kb memory 8GPIOs and
a wifi card with
a high level interface. All the size of
a SD card and running off 300ma(peak) at 3.3v
funkenstein_:
a lot of the "failures" .. are pretty fucking impressive
trinque: ascii_field | trinque: are you able to see value in the truth as an abstract ? << I had the opportunity to work for
a guy that thought the relational database should be central to operating system design
ascii_field: funkenstein_: go and see how much physical space 1kb of memory takes up in
a way you can -personally- construct from discrete transistors.
Chillum: one of these and
a small battery could record wifi SSIDs and signal strength and time for days
Chillum: it can create an access point and run
a web server all by itself
Chillum: I just got an ESP8266,
a $4 chip that has
a microcontroller that can run either C or Lua with 512kb memory 8GPIOs and
a wifi card with
a high level interface. All the size of
a SD card and running off 300ma(peak) at 3.3v
☟︎ ascii_field: 'that the protection stuff like checking array boundaries and pointer validity can be handled by the compiler just as effectively as it can in hardware, with the running product
a lot faster and
a lot simpler to build.' << imbecilic garbage
Chillum:
a lot of great discoverers and inventors believed in god
trinque: I have my doubts that
a mind which believes in the will of allah produces anything of long term value
☟︎ ascii_field: Chillum: the only further comment i have for this is that you will be well-served to read up on actual scenarios resembling your hypothetical. rather then using 'zombie apocalypse' 3d shooters as
a mental model.
Chillum: ascii_field: I honestly think keeping
a low profile would offer
a higher chance of survival than using
a lot of force. I would carry
a weapon but try my hardest not to reveal it, and use it if I do
☟︎ Chillum: well if I am in
a nazi camp I would probably not benefit much from gold
ascii_field: Chillum: markets do not disappear in
a collapse, but become 'seller's markets' very quickly. the cost of
a ticket on schindler's train was
a bag of diamonds. the cost of
a ticket on same train after it left - $infinite.
Chillum: if you don't act like
a tool then you can use the tool
ascii_field: srsly this is not
a secret, there is ample literature on what actually happens to idiot schmucks who think that money is magical
mats: they'll just put
a knife in your chest and take it.
mats: what makes you think anybody would sell you
a gun for some shiny?
Chillum: at least with gold you could buy
a gun
ascii_field: 'And so, the answer to the perennially annoying question “How do I invest my money for it to survive financial, political and commercial collapse?” is this: “There is no answer to your question. Try asking
a different question, to which there might be an answer.”'
☟︎ mats:
a ridiculous idea, really.
mats: buying gold for
a crisis is
a bet that civilization will collapse this far -- and no further.
ascii_field: Chillum: where do i leech 50 yrs of free time and
a semiconductor plant ?
Chillum: It would be nice to be born into
a society that had spent the last 20 generations engaging in long term planning to make life easy
☟︎ ascii_field: benefactor would need
a time horizon of 500 years at least.
trinque: ascii_field: sounds like the kind of thing you'd need an arms race and
a benefactor on one side to produce
ascii_field: it's rather like being
a doctor who caters specifically to alcoholics
trinque: still going after weak enemies first seems
a good way to start anything
trinque: only so many hours in
a day
trinque: you could build
a product that's an order of magnitude better than what they offer in your sleep
☟︎ Chillum: pure gold can be tested by
a blowtorch, if you make it glow red any alloys will result in bluing, pure gold will not change color
trinque: ascii_field: re: earlier thread, seems like it calls for
a lab attached to
a (perhaps unrelated) other business
Chillum: I wish I had
a satoshi for everything in the channel that was required reading
☟︎ ascii_field: Chillum: point being that collapse leads to
a trade in slaves without necessarily pausing for long at gold chains.
ascii_field: and not for airdrop, but for
a little gruel and another day of not being shot and thrown to the dogs.
ascii_field: Chillum: it is quite plausible to
a large group of people to pull gold out of the ground
Chillum: you can make decent bank panning by hand if you work all day long for
a week
Chillum: I don't know why you think it is absurd for
a large number of people to be able to pull enough gold out of the ground to get an air drop
ascii_field: there was once an engineer who occupied himself with the design of
a kind of bathyscaph,
a sort of 'mecha' suit in which one could survive being beaten and bitten by bears.
ascii_field: Chillum: the entire exercise is what i call
a 'bear suit'
☟︎ Chillum: the fact is that anyone with enough resources to survive will be
a target
Chillum: I have
a bag of damaged rings, half
a pair of earrings, links that sort of stuff
Chillum: not that I trust SDBs for more than
a backup stash
mircea_popescu: there is such
a thing as group delusion. that's how the french ended up with the urinals.
Chillum: I read
a journal from
a woman in Germany when they had their hyperinflation. She was selling the links from her gold chain one at
a time
Chillum: I have not personally experienced such
a situation
Chillum: though
a global collapse would be
a different story
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 00:10:01; mircea_popescu: just like having
a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such
a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
mircea_popescu: i am perhaps the only one here that has actually gone through
a collapse, and if that's worth for anything - goods aren't helpful.
Chillum: which will result in
a desperation for any trade unit
mircea_popescu: wouldn't just keeping
a bunch of drug dealers (actual kind, not the derps) on your rolodex work better for the purpoise ?
gabriel_laddel: ascii_field: I'll note that without comprehensive design documents others have to retrace your steps entirely and anyone who is
a fan of your work is running on grey goo pipe dreams.
Chillum: well I have
a stash of low wattage computers and some solar panels
ascii_field: but that i knew precisely what must be done to make
a computer
a tolerable thing, most of
a decade ago.
ascii_field: did not say that it is
a definite guide (to what? l0l)
mircea_popescu: im just saying, alt-universes aren't much of
a guide for anything.
ascii_field: only 'useful' to the extent
a lathe from newton's time was useful to creating today's.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what'd you have it do <<
a number of things, which resolve to 'the contents ending up where needed by dependency-graph without being asked every time'
ascii_field: memory as
a device that just sits there, is
a 20th c. idiocy.
ascii_field: gabriel_laddel: to avoid rehashing ancient thread for
a fifth time, stuck at the realization that reversing xilinx is futile.
gabriel_laddel: I can't remember your exact words, but I think you said in here once "my time would have been better spent putting together
a demo than blogging"
gabriel_laddel: ascii_field: Sometime in the next 48 hours I'm going to drop some information in here regarding the #b-
a distro, and when finished with that move on to finding funding again.
ascii_field: i've been fighting
a largely losing battle for many years, attempting to convince folks to imagine - in their spare time - that
a computer is not necessarily von neumann and the 50 yrs of shit soup
ascii_field: 'imprinting' not in the strict zoological sense, but in that of having encountered
a concept during 'formative years' when
a fella is figuring out wtf '
a computer is'
ascii_field is
a believer in sapir-whorf to the extent that he very much observed the braindamage caused by imprinting on certain programming concepts, in
a great many people.
ascii_field: gabriel_laddel: there is also such
a thing as the mental equivalent of stretched arse-rape sphincter
gabriel_laddel: Urbit is probably
a good example for what I think stas is discussing. You can get paid very well so long as you are very active doing nothing.
mircea_popescu: there's
a guy who learns and his learning is wasted effort. there's
a different guy who learns for sport.
mircea_popescu: then it suddenly becomes fascinating, like
a puzzle of sorts.
mircea_popescu: see, and this is
a FINE example of what i mean by "leak like
a sieve". your observation was in fact accounted for in my model. because i hadn't leaked it. because it doesn't leak there.
ascii_field: and to this well-known maxim i will add mine, 'giving
a fuck about the problem is worth 100 iq points'
mircea_popescu: another approach to it is to point out that human brains leak like
a fucking sieve.
mircea_popescu: that's
a good approach to explain it : imagine you can disqualify bad teachers earlier. well... that's definitely saving time.
ascii_field: but this is
a rather separate component of effective intelligence
mircea_popescu: but im not going to because i see wtf that is freom
a mile away, including the gender of the author and her parenting errors in her own kids.
mircea_popescu: that
a lesser brain would have fucked with for eight weeks"
mircea_popescu: of course this could be backed in my case by
a solid wall of "i don't have to do anything i don' want to do"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: is there
a difference between how smart/dumb one is and how quickly or slowly one learns?
ascii_field: high-paying job that kills the mind is
a suicide.
mike_c: but the safety net is still there. regardless of that, you could get
a high paying job in software. just not one you want.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field btw, how about you get them personal friends in the wot and start
a something.
mike_c: idk.. you are looking for
a very specialized type of job. I don't think you'll get far complaining there aren't
a lot of them.
mircea_popescu: for your peace of mind : the last time
a mast broke off in
a storm the year was 1715.
mike_c: see, i told you it was
a money pit.