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mircea_popescu: decimation i like that title.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: usg annihilated science to an extent no one ever, i suspect, thought of as possible. << lol not so. again the chinese lead. they burned the books 2x.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would i write on a platform that doesn't run grep o.O
undata: mircea_popescu: naw I was raised by a proper cold-warrior; they exist
mircea_popescu: ;;google "And I looked at him and my blood ran cold"
mircea_popescu: i've not yet seen an angry american.
mircea_popescu: so i guess need more women in tech ?
mircea_popescu: i honestly do not wish to write either walking or laying down.
asciilifeform: 'standing desk' has come into fashion where i live.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think nearly as well when walking, and spent many years trying to construct something like a 'walking computer.'
undata: mircea_popescu: I prefer standing desks; pacing and thinking go well together
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform every single room in this country has hardware, wrought iron tv supporter. i've not seen a tv yet standed on any surface.
mircea_popescu: i think best walking. am not trying to get a walking computor tho
decimation: asciilifeform: I think you would need 'chorded handles' so you could lay your arms on the bed
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: part of eternal quest for 'write in bed' machine << i hate writing in bed.
decimation: I rolled over a pretty big retirement account into a fiat dollar broker
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't imagine a home chip fab would smell much better.
asciilifeform: but even what i've said so far is hopelessly inaccurate.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i wouldn't mind a car that runs on farts, if it were possible at home. << can you imagine hpow that'd go ? how it'd smell ? how uncomfortable the gas pipe'd get ?
decimation: I can see that. I imagine it would have ben something kinda like verilog with features that help you design asynchronous circuitry
asciilifeform: ideally, i would teach it only to those who had never programmed a computer previously.
asciilifeform: everyone i've ever spoken with on the subject ended up mentally mutilating it to fit his von neumman and synchronous cpu preconceptions.
asciilifeform: a language that i don't even care to discuss because it cannot be meaningfully executed on existing hardware.
asciilifeform: undata: i can't even begin to say, because the expense involved is literally astronomical.
undata: I'm still interested to hear an estimate on the R&D cost of an 'actual' computer
asciilifeform: i wouldn't mind a car that runs on farts, if it were possible at home.
decimation: asciilifeform: I wouldn't mind a 500 micrometer fab if it were possible at home
asciilifeform should like the answer to 'how do i grow single-crystal si in jungle conditions, how do i lay down dopant with ion beam sans high vacuum' etc.
decimation: mircea_popescu: I like your romanian poet/french revolution quote. It could almost be used as a motto for the west today
asciilifeform: usg annihilated science to an extent no one ever, i suspect, thought of as possible.
asciilifeform: bacterium is almost as much too large as you and i.
asciilifeform: the way i understand it, a 100% open fpga, produced in a thousand factories of mutually-antagonistic owners, is the one and only way to 'open computer.'
assbot: HyperWar: The Machine Gun (Vol. I/Part II) ... ( http://bit.ly/1wixV6N )
decimation: heh http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/MG/I/MG-2.html#16 << related
decimation: consumer boards I should say
asciilifeform: i generally tag all of the parties responsible for this state of affairs as agents of usg, whether they would think of themselves as such or not.
decimation: I mean if we could 'kickstart' such a design for a few $K
asciilifeform: i'm not convinced this is a usg-dependent phenomenon
decimation: yeah I know
decimation: the only credible buyers I can imagine are non-us defense
asciilifeform: i did tell the tale, of how on one occasion someone succeeded in mostly reversing a particular chip
decimation: yeah whenever I hear "ip cores" I immediately think of all the legal bullshit that they are pimping to support their 'business'
decimation: yeah I've heard it referred to as the "ip cores" market
asciilifeform: this is because it is quite impossible, as i understand, to really make serious money selling the chips
asciilifeform: i will not only die of old age but probably manage to fossilize before anyone ever thinks of serving this market.
asciilifeform: as i may have once explained, the chicoms have not done this and should not be expected to ever do it, because fpga is profoundly useless in a mass consumer product.
decimation: I guess 'no nda' just means drivers specs
decimation: and they are still 'fundraising' as far as I can tell
decimation: well, I would give novena a hell of alot more credit if they actually shipped
decimation: I just want the spec and docs (with talmud of errata)
asciilifeform: can i see the mask for 'arm' core - the actual production mask - without nda?
decimation: yes, I know about the 'novena'
decimation: asciilifeform: only google knows the right bits to flip I guess
decimation: I've been tagged with supporting a 'palo alto' vpn turd box. I'm pretty sure it's bsd
asciilifeform: the chromebook thing is just like the situation i spoke of last week: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-12-2014#944963 ☝︎
asciilifeform: i can easily understand now why theo de raadt zapped support for loadable kernel modules in openbsd
undata: I'm pretty sure this one has a hardware issue; / remounts read-only sporadically
asciilifeform: i'm not interested in using 'chrome os.'
undata: I would laugh my ass off for days if MS ever bought Canonical
asciilifeform: why and how would i even see this.
mats: mircea_popescu: cool. i appreciate your patience, still working on picking up latin and romanian. and maintaining the other languages bouncing around in my head.
mircea_popescu: i have never in my life had cherries this good
mircea_popescu: jesus the fruits in this country, i can't get over it.
mats: whatever the dudes talk about, i suppose.
ben_vulpes: what i really want is to listen to strong female characters talking about...what to strong female characters talk about?
undata: yeah I can see that
mats: they do alright, generally, but chicks i talk to about it aren't happy with how women are portrayed in the show
mats: i lost the battle in giving up TV. i haven't picked up anything new though, so thats a win, i guess
mats: things i do watch: Homeland, The Newsroom, New Girl, Sons of Anarchy, Psycho Pass
mats: meh. i don't watch sports on television.
undata: I need a word for this. It's such a common Americanism.
BingoBoingo: I know football presents a greater chance of disability for much more imaginary future money
mircea_popescu: i guess so.
BingoBoingo: Well, I'm already a university trained librarian. The rest is just getting a vague idea of what the law shit means
undata: looks like I made the right choice
undata: I was working on my own crypto-only exchange for a bit, then thought better of it since I don't have piles of money for lawyers
BingoBoingo: I'm guessing court appointed, but no way to tell. The only interesting filing was his handwritten filing pre sentencing.
mircea_popescu: i certainly am not about to go over the man's picks and "improve em".
mircea_popescu: i didn't pick it either, and i am thankful for not having had to.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, i didn't pick the 7! but i dare to guess that it was chosen out of spite.
mircea_popescu: i still dunno why we'd believe 7 is a good exponent
mircea_popescu: i wonder, if i say Dr. Nicolas T. Courtois will this then be the first hit on his name tomorrow or something ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform still, i can see the argument that "7" is not safe just for being you know, the number of holes on your body.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm wrestling with my PACER login to find some filings in the Powel case
cazalla: mircea_popescu, there is http://i.imgur.com/55MwjMX.png too
mircea_popescu: i get it, he's a "google scholar" and he has patents. whopee.
mircea_popescu: so the guy that wrote that otherwise interesting post : 1) aslo wrote http://blog.bettercrypto.com/?p=640 , a complete misrepresentation of the tim swhatever incident ; 2) runs a blog where you need cookies/js to leave him a comment pointing out that no, he's not extempt from the common requirements of "know what you're talking about before you posture" ; 3) has a contact page where i could donate btc to him (or ltc he
thestringpuller: I wish my teacher was a porn star teaching the class naked.
thestringpuller: i get booed off the stage when I do stand up :(
mircea_popescu: i thought this was ghoing to be a sex joke.
thestringpuller: Haha. I was just imagining you as Bitcoin's Obama. It was funnier in my head because of the implied irony.
thestringpuller: notary is down for extended maintenance I thought.
Namworld: I just checked, it's about 3/4th of the way through.
decimation: I think "don't grab the princess" is on the list
Vexual: thanks for the continue TomServo, i thought this was flappy birds for a minute
danielpbarron: it was fun while it lasted; I got to lord over the -otc folk a bit
nubbins`: well i guess assbot doesn't issue ;;rate commands in-chan
danielpbarron: not sure why, since i had just recently joined the channel
danielpbarron: lol i was; i was on the first list
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 06:35:49; ben_vulpes: <danielpbarron> well my having not done it doesn't matter as i'm no longer a lord << when did this happen?