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asciilifeform: not so long ago i ate mircea_popescu's , what, 200G one.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-24 19:28 mircea_popescu: afghanistan fambly lived happily for 1k/year pre usg tardation, for instance.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-24 13:48 mircea_popescu: yeah, last ditch desperate attempt to keep the "real estate values" from going to the ~1 yuan / sqft reality sees them at.
BingoBoingo: Also ty asciilifeform and mircea_popescu for getting a pretty little FUCKGOAT to my mailing address
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ianal, but iirc it is postulated by statute
asciilifeform: lol just when i thought mircea_popescu had linked to every possible type of tmblr
gabriel_laddel_p: mircea_popescu: I don't like the regular stuff (adderall).
trinque: mircea_popescu: downtown's great, welcomed me back last night with watching somebody drive wrong way up a one way road on the sidewalk to get to the burger joint I was at
gabriel_laddel_p: Now that the "UX" is in some sense complete, I'm studying so the hardware can be swapped out from under it, exactly in the manner described by mircea_popescu earlier today.
asciilifeform: understand, i very much wish to live to see mircea_popescu's prediction come alive
asciilifeform: dun become tru simply by mircea_popescu saying it.
asciilifeform: how does mircea_popescu go about collecting ?
asciilifeform: ( maybe mircea_popescu was thinking of sega's 'saturn' ? )
asciilifeform: ( twist: 'fyootoor tech', mircea_popescu will reveal, is gurls with abacus )
asciilifeform: and -- for completeness -- Fyootoor Tech that mircea_popescu knows about, and asciilifeform -- does not.
asciilifeform: 'is mircea_popescu referring to some concrete approach, or just a generic prof.brin-style 'THINK!YOUMAGGOTS''
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 16:41 mircea_popescu: there's many possible approaches to this ford we're not at yet.
asciilifeform: btw mircea_popescu baking a pc-style mobo is not expensive, our existing pcb people could quite readily do it. the problem is 'out of what'. the necessary docs are not available, never leaked, nor the firmware signing keys (still not phuctored!1111 damn)
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: If I Were A Rich Man Lyrics - Fiddler on the Roof - Soundtrack Lyrics: <https://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/bestofbroadway-americanmusical/ifiwerearichman.htm>; If I Were a Rich Man Lyrics - Fiddler on the Roof Cast - Soundtrack ...: <https://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/fiddlerontheroof/ifiwerearichman.htm>; If I Were a Rich Man (song) - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Were_a_R
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 00:45 mircea_popescu: it is much worse to have a town of 1000 populated by 500 idiots with idiots' tastes and 20 bucks to spend each
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 20:46 mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the state of casual gaming is completely fucked up. so other than utter throwaways, stuff that looks like someone's undegrad project, the ~entire market of ipad-likes (stuff that works in the browser, or else via a "light" client for windows/mac, or else as a ipad/android etc app) is wholly like this :
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: like bolix!111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: laugh, but it's the ONE interface that's ~actually~ standard
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope. the existing chips all rely on the various craptree buses.
trinque: mircea_popescu: aha, and in my head there was this ACPI table you could ask the BIOS for or w/e
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this already happened in heathendom, long ago, was called 'microkernel' heresy
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: 'Every service is in a dedicated VM container' << i'm not clear on difference between vm and vps, but i have at least one trb box on vm it seems.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: that's a point eh.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: moar analogous to ac current. which very nearly went to same place as symbolics.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not apart from the amex fraud sensor thing, afaik.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: also 4gb ram and 1tb raid that processes tx way the hell faster than dulap on mech hdd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is difficult to compress decade of archaeology into 1 persuasive paragraph. esp. to persuade a fella who in his panglossism has determined not to be persuadable.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-22 23:34 mircea_popescu: tbh i have nfi how you could run trb in a vps. i don't think it's possible, not really. would be certainly quite the medal of merit on any software that can handle such.
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu is in the position where he spent many years applying serious, scientific methods to the problem of knowledge classification.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is in the position of the greeks who pissed on heron's turbine.
asciilifeform: well i can't very well by force of magic will, teleport mircea_popescu into a pre-airbrake train so he can feel he diff on own skin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the basic tech of internal combustion -- was not lost.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: girl (rather cute, i might add) said she just wants to lurk to start. read logs etc. i've pointed her towards registering her key with deedbot and said she can ask q's via pm or pgpgram. we'll see what comes of the endeavour i guess.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: arguably, in the sense where sikorsky's chopper is interesting, while davinci's -- much less .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is free to be as 'unpersuaded' as he wants. fact: his machine -- can overrun an array; bolix -- could not; his box -- crashes, cannot be examined or uncrashed (yes) -- bolix -- could; and various other aspects, well covered in teh logz. ☟︎
asciilifeform: hey somebody gotta fall on the grenade, mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tru
asciilifeform: can haz few mm^2 of die space, mircea_popescu ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mircea_popescu already has.
asciilifeform: what's to keep mircea_popescu from building one in his cellar ( supposing he felt like it )
asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu was of the notion that you don't need economy of mass to do si fab.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tru! but won't be pin-compatible with traditional roms
asciilifeform: but nope. it went the way of mircea_popescu's top hat.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-20 13:54 mircea_popescu: phf> ok, not sure if anybody tried yet, but asciilifeform's gentoo chicken works as prescribed << it does, yes, and it IS a very good and useful thing. almost makes me feel bad when mocking linuxen.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you missed nothing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is that even a ticketable offense in mircea_popesculandia ?
asciilifeform: i am actually rather fond of my vps hoster, nfs co (discussed in the logs at least twice, one of which was the time mircea_popescu wrote to them 'why not bitcoin?' and they answered 'bitcoin is a snore', he then barfed)
asciilifeform: that one time i sent a sample of boards to mircea_popescu , in 2014, was a real lulzfest
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "decrypted mac pro but not external hdds"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: thanks mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which common fantasy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from not updating since '06, say.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the proverbial 'six words from the pen of the honest man', presumably.
shinohai: Now that mircea_popescu pointed out fangs in "The anti-woman" I see them everywhere http://archive.is/3Hujw
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> if i went out with a wrench and threatened people to break their head unless they pay me 100 pesos i'd break all the heads << That's so primitive. Gotta break out the Chain Tongs like a pro!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: americans also buy socks on layaway, it is simply structured differently.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from 'Bitcoin Foundation Appoints Llew Claasen as Executive Director Monday, June 20, 2016'
asciilifeform: not quite what mircea_popescu predicted..
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 1107.99, vol: 10588.08120418 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 1129.0, vol: 9120.61842 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 1108.3, vol: 31279.51403033 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 1069.81182, vol: 4669.78470000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 1100.001, vol: 4082.49310025 | Volume-weighted last average: 1107.82967196
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it'd be entertaining if one is ever caught and wired to the mains -- to learn wtf he thought he was doing here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cabs in usistan are peculiarly expensive, i still have nfi why. it's the thing that ultimately spawned crackpot chumpatrons ('uber', 'lyft', etc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnily enough, the state managed to lose money EVEN ON IT
asciilifeform: for whatever reason (could be from plantation days? i have nfi) plebes are not managed like people in usistan, but more like livestock, they build pens, corrals, for them, this was even the subject of a mircea_popescu article ('embroiled in dealings with the stupid poor', or what was it called)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this'd be a massive dekulakization, more or less 100% of 'class privilege' in usistan is 'no plebes, no traffic, for mile around'
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah, server went down, and now need to fix stuff. will do
a111: Logged on 2017-03-21 01:09 mircea_popescu: i thought it worked in english.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-21 00:21 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo afaik that's a chinese brand.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is interesting, in the american 'computing' mags of the time, to see the ads, how the pictured people are dressed, even
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yeah, as late as mid-90s even.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on pc?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nc also, hexview
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was described in a trilema
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there were many decent clones of the dos nc : e.g., 'volkov commander'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: softwarehouse inc. was bought by ti, who 'calculatorized' it, there's an old thread
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hah, so not only asciilifeform hated that ui !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu this is entirely tru
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: perhaps the interstitial spaces carry meaning for me
asciilifeform: 'pothole' means what in mircea_popescu's mind's eye, cubic metre pit ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: explain
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: expand on 'corner cases'?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have allergy to 'Simplicity! Is Best! Simple life, Simple toolz!!!' folx, who, on examination, are able to carry along in he delusion strictly because they do ~0 nontrivial work with own hands.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-21 00:49 mircea_popescu: i know some clits i don't mind pushing 707 times.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno about yours, on my kbd there is not a clit..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ancients did write 'moderation in all things', neh.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: his client disconnected earlier
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: somehow i suspect that when mircea_popescu gets into an airplane, he would like to find that it has triply- or higher- redundant avionics system, rather than 'oh it is redundant because if this one goes down, there will be another plane, with some other bloke in it, some other day, dun worry.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: again, not 'arbitrary' for purpose of subj , put a bullet ( or dose of gamma, or whatnot ) through bacterial culture, and it closes the hole in a few hrs, and who could say there ever was a hole. but try same hole through mouse, or man.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tricky, conflates 'individual needs' with 'species needs'
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 03:47 mircea_popescu: imagine if in a few years the actual fucking chunks of metal are the point of worship. "oh man, that's tech! who can make straight angles anymore!"
trinque: thorium in the walls is right up there with mircea_popescu's http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629337 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cinderblock (usa) is a champ. followed by 'fancy' tiles (granite, various)
asciilifeform: the radium girl was exactly mircea_popescu's 'twerker': 'value extracted from marginal'
asciilifeform: i am still thinking about the 'radium girls' mircea_popescu . for some reason most 'left'-flavoured historians don't mention the fact that they were paid 2-3x the market rate for 'generic unskilled gurl'