asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i recently popped a crate with 4th ed. stroustrup. it was, to my surprise, proper lay-flat. but the pleasant surprise turned to ick when i saw that it, for no particular reason, had blue as well as black print, and a good fraction of the blue is smudged !
asciilifeform: 'Dear students! Remember that money can solve anything! Even complicated differential equations.'
asciilifeform: afaik everyone who programs, has this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my understanding is that all self-published items are typeset personally ?
asciilifeform: almost like there is some threshold that is crossed (i.e. ~all~ of the comments on an article re: recent oregon 'postal' being such that concern organized mass disarmament) and then they 'ban commentz now!?!!!'
asciilifeform: i.e. abandons the appearance of k0nsensoos
asciilifeform: (anything outside of my humble zimbabwe hut, that is)
asciilifeform: my own favourite pill, of stockpiling hardware, is also no kind of solution to anything.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu's sometimes-powerful medicine of putting on a blindfold and pretending that nothing happens outside of his wot - will not work here.☟︎
asciilifeform: ten thousand kinds of vermin are quietly (and not so quietly) waiting for this day.
asciilifeform: amd co., the old gentle giant, is not long for this world. which leaves intel, which is a malignancy.
asciilifeform: this ~will~ have to be addressed, or kittenz and rainbowz will come to grief.
asciilifeform: it being the ONLY reason one cannot permanently nail down a kernel and pour cement over it.
asciilifeform: aaaaaand it all goes back to hardware.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-10-2015#1292450 << somehow i can't help but picture maggots, having devoured a quantity of gangrenous tissue, proceeding to living flesh - i.e. 'gnome' and 'kde' have been poetteringed into putrescent soup, and now it is time for the kernel...☝︎
asciilifeform: 'Konstantin Sonin, a columnist for Vedomosti, is a professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.' << so apparently they haven't purged ~all~ the vermin quite yet.
asciilifeform: the 'planet' thing, as with most american neologisms, leaves little to the imagination. it refers not to obesity even but to a qualitative jump in the progression of the disease where the afflicted begins to lose 'human form' - what a child might draw when asked to 'draw person' - and converge to... a sphere. hence 'planet.'
asciilifeform: just about nobody, outside of p.t. barnum's circus, was 'hamplanet' in 1880. not rich people, either.
