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mircea_popescu: of course, even getting oysters fit for
the
table in
the first place was already a dubious matter
then.
mircea_popescu: fifteen years ago it was good sport
to order oyster entree with local fellows present. average american will make faces at
the half shell and do it no further harm.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, can you even get a proper (14.) full course meal in
teh us anymoar ?
trinque: sadly I
think
this was a result of a four course meal joint struggling
to get by, for same reason as "he didn't introduce himself
to me omg"
mircea_popescu: the us
tv has brought about
this chef-restaurant manager combo. dunno how sustainable it is in practice.
mircea_popescu: generally it's
the job of
the maitre d', which in more euro-style restaurants is
the you know, favoured louis de funes role, not really rhe chef. but custoims vary.
trinque: and wtf, he's supposed
to interject himself between
the men and women without introductions?
this while
trying
to be a good host?
trinque: my own grandfather was chef and owner of a great steak place for decades, did
this nightly.
mircea_popescu: possibly,
through having had a lot of muricans in
the joint over
the years.
mircea_popescu: the (very indian) chef of great local place actually came out of kitchen
to see
these
two people who were eating all
the stuff i rodered ; but couldn't summon
the courage
to more
than bow from a distance and scurry off.
☟︎ trinque: I used
this as a
teachable moment for all
trinque: then
two women at
table wail "oh he didn't shake our hands"
☟︎ trinque: by
the
time I shook his hand and started chatting with him, guy was uncomfortable and I let him depart
trinque: my back was
to
the poor guy or I'd have handled it from
the beginning, only noticed because idiots were getting uncomfortable across from me
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 16:21 mircea_popescu: in other shocking developments, /me learned yesterday
that some people actually believe serving a l'anglaise (ie, in
their bastardized notion, pre-plated items) is an acceptable manner for waitstaff!
trinque: "uh I don't know, people started cutting
their dicks as part of a mass mental breakdown. I
think
they had quite fair skin."
mircea_popescu: if you got
that particular fetish/brainhole, stroking it is pleasurable, but once
the spunk comes out
that's it.
mircea_popescu: i dunno
that anyone reads
the guardian for purposes other
than superman magazine or hustler.
trinque: ultimate lulz being
that
this will be
the lasting memory of
this page of history, if anybody
takes
the paragraph point five
to write it
mircea_popescu: uk had
three referendums in its entire history, now
they want one a year ?
mircea_popescu: and i swear if i see another one of
these ustard precious cuntlet ledes with "o nso and so date so and so insignificant schmuck just like
the author was being part of an imaginary sequel of seinfeld" ima kidnap some "innocents" and sell
them in gabon.
shinohai: I kinda liked
the wankel, would rev
to ~10k without batting an eye, perfect marriage for bigger
turbos
mircea_popescu: in other shocking developments, /me learned yesterday
that some people actually believe serving a l'anglaise (ie, in
their bastardized notion, pre-plated items) is an acceptable manner for waitstaff!
☟︎ shinohai used
to be quite
the rx-7 aficionado, owned 2 and loved
them both.
ben_vulpes: that reminds me, i have a rear differential
to weld
together.
ben_vulpes: also "it's only yours if you're willing
to destroy it"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: hey, some men just want
to see
the catalytic converter burn
ben_vulpes: (promo videos showcase semi cab with
the horsepower
to drift around
the desert)
mircea_popescu recalls used
to laugh with friends at "racing experts" with
the
tell-tale flame out
the
tailpipe.
mircea_popescu: i
thought you were specifically not supposed
to do
that
ben_vulpes: also
turbochargers are approximately standard
these days. new civics come with
them stock. efficiency and emissions, baby!
ben_vulpes: in other
things asciilifeform doesn't know about
turbines, some nutjobs will run super-rich mixtures such
that gases are still burning
through
the exhaust manifold and into
the
turbocharger.
this obviously
torches
the poor
turbo in short order, but
the
temporary power boost is astonishing.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-11 21:15 Framedragger: @all
thanks
to
this chat i'll now make some urgent recommendations
to startup i'm involved with. maybe it's not even gonna be fucked in
the ass if moves decisively away. a bit ashamed i had $opinion on $thing-not-researched in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: when one metalworking gets it within 3 A and
the other metalworking gets it
to
the 3 micrometers, you know
there's room for some "nobody could have predicted" qualitative jumps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! and it doesn't seem, from casual survey of
the field,
that
they actually put
to work ~everything available.
the silicone people are cutting metal masks
to
the
three atom widths ffs.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 14:09 phf`:
that article was inoffensive, but sloppy. some offhand points i
think required elaboration (i.e. missing republican footnotes!), others were superfluous
mircea_popescu: i mean... asciilifeform i guess I was asleep at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: that's
the other
thing - gas
turbine works great with electric gen.
mircea_popescu: and evidently
the metalworking
tech
to make
the 100 gram
turbine is here. wasn't here say 1980.
mircea_popescu: ie,
they asymptotically
tend
towards... o2 reductor / h2 donor.
mircea_popescu: (typical carnot cycle does not miniaturize well.
turbine however... might.)
mircea_popescu: gotta
to something with aqll
the wolfram
they're not using for proper lightbulbs anymore.
mircea_popescu: they can make a
touch screen,
they can make a chamber for o3 reduction.
mircea_popescu: but it seems, very from-the-satellite view,
that it should work somehow. at least
to my eye
mircea_popescu: the other item i'm vaguely surprised
they're not deplyoing is
the actual oxygen purifier engine. srsly, put atmospheric air into your chamber ? because you hate yourself or why.
mircea_popescu: "oh we've never read it stated like
that before!!" "mkay, i'm sure such happenstance does something"
mircea_popescu: yah but
tell it
to her daughters you get a reaction quite like yours re
turbo hybrids above
mircea_popescu: contrary
to what "the people" of "our democracy" have in mind, nobody made cars "so
that" little miss humpernickle can
take her groceries home easierlier.
mircea_popescu: you got a
turbine, which'll burn ~anything but does not spool, you've got a gasoline engine, which will
this but not
that,
there's electric which is most efficient but uses
the most volatile of fuels, make something of
this!
mircea_popescu: it's not hard
to observe, as a
theoretical physicist at least,
that ~all engines
to date are stumbling at a general problem with naive assumptions.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
to be perfectly fair and generally speaking sane :
the actual
technological need driving
the modern hybrid craze has ~nothing
to do with
the declared reasoning (envirobs) and everything
to do with
the desperate attempts of engineers who noticed
they have a pile of ~useful items
to arrange
them in an optimal configuration.
mircea_popescu: when fishing
through
the (rather consistent) history of engines, one's always
to be careful. lotta curly items in
there.
mircea_popescu: was certainly displayed in public,
to great excitement.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc a half dozen or somesuch. but
taken
to faires and so on
mircea_popescu: somehow
the "conspiracy
to supress" ~never mentions
this. always impresses me re
the culture and literacy of
the little john smiths us soil keeps popping like mushrooms everywhere
mircea_popescu: item dun really need so much power i don't
think, but certainly used in
the higher power
tractors iirc.