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mircea_popescu: this is mostly important because considering on one hand the uninformed low level arithmeticizing of reality prevalent in the esl world, and on the other the utter insanities passed for "graphs" on the forum, but also generally in the world - say that abject "cross model", people really need a little example of PROPER use of numbers.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk the deleted 2020 is more of a playful rethorical device
mircea_popescu: bucharest is and always was such a hellhole the likes of which no one has ever seen.
asciilifeform: incidentally, one of his first (or perhaps first?) works is a description of a voyage he took, to visit the major capitals of the communist world
mircea_popescu: i like a man who can use the text.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk if every 170k blocks it increases 35 times, and there's 365 days to the year and 24 hours to the day and 6 blocks in a hour
mircea_popescu: "can't figure it out when a mater of abstract objects ? that's fine, do it over but with cunts and fucking this time. see if the carefully evolved mamallian brain isn't more a help than a hindrance in matters it's actually evolved to handle!"
asciilifeform: (anyone who enjoyed 'the knife went in' can see a bunch more, http://www.city-journal.org/author_index.php?author=47 )
asciilifeform used to suspect for a while, long ago, that herr dalrymple was tlp
mircea_popescu: she didn't even attempt to write a book.
asciilifeform must have at least half a book-case of 'prison lit'
mircea_popescu: i had this girl... she was a psych grad. weighed about 50 kgs if dressed, and had spent three years as the prison shrink.
asciilifeform: fella was a prison shrink.
mircea_popescu: i guess i'd do okay as a lord with his own court in some marsh cca 1300, but otherwise...
asciilifeform: he has a passage almost entirely this.
mircea_popescu: i'd probably make a horrible judge, on the grounds that i'm generally inclined to let off everyone who kills purposefully.
asciilifeform: t. dalrymple (retired british shrink, wrote a number of hilarious books on psychology of criminals - and civ. decay overally) had a thing on this
asciilifeform: i'm still waiting to read a cv with entry 'xxxx-xxxx - hobo'
asciilifeform: 'January 2009 Completed The Insurance Premium Reduction Program at A and J Driving School.' on a cv !?!?
asciilifeform: phillipsj is quite a joker.
asciilifeform: more of a 'bed of nails' thing though
mircea_popescu: "One ought not to pay any attention to Hitler's recent line of talk about being the friend of the poor man, the enemy of plutocracy, etc etc. Hitler's real self is in MEIN KAMPF, and in his actions. He has never persecuted the rich, except when they were Jews or when they tried actively to oppose him. He stands for a centralised economy which robs the capitalist of most of his power but leaves the structure of society
asciilifeform: actual computer should be a -place-, not merely machine
decimation: actually, I would consider getting a german-speaking au pair
decimation: there was a class locally, but it was canceled for lack of interest
mircea_popescu: like a shepherd or something.
mircea_popescu: yeah, you want her to learn german, get her a german speaking dog/
decimation: I'm trying to teach her German, but it goes much better with a native speaker
cazalla: seems like a sure fire way to give your kid brain damage
decimation: my daughter loves her 'app' that forces her to re-order numbers, letters, and phrases to receive a cartoon reward
mircea_popescu: yeah, that i have seen. there's a koi pond simulator
mircea_popescu: i borrowed an ipad for a coupla weeks to check out the games and i gave it back without regrets - more with relief.
mircea_popescu: i have half a dozen laptops which i use... maybe a day a season, or something, between the lot.
asciilifeform: can hold a kg or 2 of dust
asciilifeform: there is not, nor can be, a replacement for The computer.
mircea_popescu: i guess im a reactionary. i own, substantially, the exact kind of machine i had as a child.
mircea_popescu: good god. a cloud of now useless paper, and a criminal eyed mp
mircea_popescu: and the worst thing a maid could do is drop a wreath of books on the way to shelving
asciilifeform: (why to do this, is a matter of taste)
asciilifeform: the model is that one wishes sometimes to emulate a book.
mircea_popescu: but it happens that i oft do have a loit to say
decimation: no, it's a 'read-only' device. the model is that the reader has nothing to say
asciilifeform: 'kindle' is not a computer! it's this entirely specialized machine, like kitchen mixer.
mircea_popescu: o wait, this is like a woman that's useful as long as another woman is around ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you want to say something here. like a quote.
asciilifeform: it goes to a text file.
mircea_popescu: does it have a for ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a quote collector widget.
asciilifeform: (which one is not forced to use, unlike the one in certain very early 'e-readers', but tempts sufficiently many ESL (to use mircea_popescu's term) folks to bring in a pretty penny for the vendor)
asciilifeform sometimes wonders whether that product category would exist - and what it would cost if it did - if there were not a built-in chumpatronic collector
asciilifeform has a 'kindle dx'. no signs of wear after ~4 yrs.
decimation: but probably not fast enough for a full terminal
decimation: today you could build a really cheap serial terminal, perhaps with 'e-ink' display
decimation: had a 'laser scanner' peripheral, even
decimation: aye, my first job was a library clerk, using an ibm serial terminal
asciilifeform: as a student.
asciilifeform ended up buying such a terminal (not from library) and using for a long while
decimation: $900 is a bit steep though
asciilifeform: quite useless, unless one of us were to come across a gigantic crate of these somewhere.
decimation: actually that little device (wi-copy) would be a good buy just to harvest the parts
decimation: ah no the android software is running on a phone connected to the device, sorry for the confusion
asciilifeform: there is a mips-android...
asciilifeform: silly or not, apparently there are at least half a dozen makers of just this.
asciilifeform: if anyone has one of these, please pop the cover and take a photo.
asciilifeform: http://goughlui.com/2015/01/29/review-teardown-apotop-wi-copy-dw21-5200mah-power-bank << this wants to be a node
BingoBoingo: The 86 was a good looking computer
BingoBoingo: That is a collection
asciilifeform: (a second or so, but it much grated on the nerves)
asciilifeform: the later grey blob, with the usb jack, also had... a boot time.
BingoBoingo: That it was. I wasn't a fan of the aesthetics of the redesign
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: 89 was same "civillian" form factor as 83, On the 92 user accessible rom like that could be a thing.
mircea_popescu: "simply a hole in the air" !?
mircea_popescu: "And yet somehow the ruling class decayed, lost its ability, its daring, finally even its ruthlessness, until a time came when stuffed shirts like Eden or Halifax could stand out as men of exceptional talent. As for Baldwin, one could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt. He was simply a hole in the air. "
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: from five minute's dig, seems like it was a rom.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you had a ti92. what was https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/vYjLMFABxoRvDQUr.huge ?
decimation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/maryland-politics/post/agreement-allows-konterra-project-to-move-forward/2011/04/19/AF4neD7D_blog.html "The pact includes construction of a planned I-95 interchange with Contee Road near Maryland Route 198, and extension of Virginia Manor Road for access to the proposed 2,200-acre mixed-use development."
decimation: it was built as a favor to one of the wash dc land barons
decimation: asciilifeform: re: road 200 << I actually drove on this road a few times. it was pointlessly empty, as well as having a low speed limit (55 mph)
asciilifeform: http://www.farrellf.com/projects/hardware/2013-07-26_Overclocking_the_TI-83+_Graphing_Calculator/overview.jpg << not mine. but did this for a few classmates as a schoolboy
mircea_popescu: myeah. obviously point meant as a general - and thus indefensible - jab >
asciilifeform: as i understand, they've introduced a few devices where this 'problem' is 'fixed'
asciilifeform: 1.5b for ibm's chip div. << state of maryland could have bought one and a half of these for the cost of road 200 (a recently built, money-losing toll road i frequent.)
assbot: 2 results for 'ibm real estate' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ibm+real+estate
asciilifeform: terrain tracking navigator is not such a hard problem.
assbot: The Chinese Military Blasted a Private Drone With a Shotgun — War Is Boring — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1zmpIBo )
asciilifeform: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-chinese-military-blasted-a-private-drone-with-a-shotgun-5789a7483014
mircea_popescu: 'I don't want to join the bloody Army, I don't want to go unto the war; I want no more to roam, I'd rather stay at home, Living on the earnings of a whore.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: americans themselves have a specially custom rocket that does only this.
mircea_popescu: set it to go off whenever a large collection of radiodildoes, phones and toy cars goes over it
asciilifeform: wouldn't you set off << a) no, because, e.g., toy car or phone has a discriminator - required bitstring (a la 'MAC address') that must match
asciilifeform: what's actually inside? unsurprisingly, a catalogue of frequencies used by cellular, wireless housephones, toy cars, teledildoes...
asciilifeform: ^ not a bad place to start
asciilifeform: 'The Secret Service uses covert radio-frequency jammers inside a Chevrolet Suburban that travels with the president’s motorcade. These devices disable remotely triggered improvised bombs. But because they have to disable explosives set off by a potentially large number of frequencies, the jammers saturate a wide spectrum, occasionally interfering with cellphones nearby.' << this deserves an aside
asciilifeform: 'A Homeland Security sensor deployed to spot — but not interfere with — drones flying above the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Minneapolis last July “cost several hundred thousand dollars to operate for just that night,” reported the New York Times.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform heh reuters has a yearlong delay off trilema huh.
mircea_popescu: people's disenchantment with their own wives isn't predicated on the theory that somewhere there's a sane woman waiting.
mircea_popescu: no. just a... sexy one.
asciilifeform: 'state ipad', but one nitpick, this presumes that somewhere there lives a 'normal' one.
asciilifeform: decimation: that article has the beginnings of a glorious 'onion piece'
mircea_popescu: decimation they probably manifest that list of qualities which made "state' such a damning adjective in romanian.