asciilifeform: but if they do not, then the ~constellation~ of machines on which they happen, or at the very least, their control panels, are to then be called 'the workstation'.☟︎
asciilifeform: it is not, i will note, essential that all of these things happen on the ~same~ cpu
asciilifeform: e.g., to walk the blockchain, verify a raid array 24/7 in a loop, handle six parallel compiles; store and play the correct bach fugue depending on what emacs modeline is set; etc.
asciilifeform: a ~workstation~ is one particular kind. and it means different things to different people, yes.
asciilifeform: (which is, roughly, that the 'leaks' thus far are 1% good stuff - e.g., the ANT catalogue, the ECI directorates list, and that's pretty much IT - while the remainder is 9 parts cheapo operational garbage to 1 part deliberate disinfo)
asciilifeform: i still recall the days when a developer would spend an hour a day WAITING FOR REBOOTS
asciilifeform: and the requisite hardware to drive it.
asciilifeform: this means a ROOM full of displays if you can swing it☟︎
asciilifeform: the other half of what it means is NUKING as much as possible of the share of your life spent waiting for your hands to move viewports around, and the like.
asciilifeform: ~this~ is part of what 'workstation' means. minimizing the hours of your life BURNED waiting for a cpu.
asciilifeform: how much of his life does mircea_popescu spend waiting for compiles? for numbers to crunch? and i specifically mean WAITING FOR A MACHINE not for a human operator to get his shit together
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310704 << the n00b put in front of von neumann machine is told that the deterministic circuits will behave... well, deterministically. then five minutes later he learns about threads and the scheduler, and then never believes anyone again..☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: yes, man doing the job of a machine because he is cheaper than the requisite machine - like the barge-men of the volga, pulling the rope with their own muscle, were cheaper than mules - needs to be 'conscientious'☟︎
asciilifeform: i must have missed it: what was the motivation for attempting these chimeras ?
asciilifeform: well, for one thing, i'm not adding layers
asciilifeform: i can't help but wonder what my published work thus far (in re: therealbitcoin, v, etc.) looks like to mats. probably looks like entirely baseless lunacy, like an eiffel tower glued from tongue depressors
asciilifeform: to the point that being ANY OTHER KIND is something you do under a blanket, at night.
asciilifeform: and yes, if mats wants to be this kind of doctor - not only is he free to, but there is a tremendous bezzle market for the service.
asciilifeform: for some odd reason mats reminds me of the articles about the monstrously fat folks that BingoBoingo linked to. the ones where they demand that doctor treat the 1,001 consequences of their 5,000 calorie intake without mentioning the elephant in the room.
asciilifeform: mats: you do not see complexity per se as a bug ?
asciilifeform: now i am not a 'famous & respected' type, so i'm not yet at the 'worth a car bomb' level. but i will confess that i am at the 'disconnected phones at places with no paper association with me ring and ask by name' level.
