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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the ideal functioning of, eg, semi, is
that engine
turns at 4800 for 8 hours straight.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to revisit upstack : putting "quantum computing" in
the same pile of failed
technologies as stem cell research is beyond idiotic. holy hell, every woman
that ever was pregnant got
the embryonic boost, measurable and measured, wtf.
mircea_popescu: yes, but in a proper arrangement (electric, gasoline, gas) hybrid,
the gas
turbine needn't cover all power curves.
mircea_popescu: "very confused salesman"
test. i gotta remember
this one.
mircea_popescu: if i
take my cues from dudes working in auto dealers, i might even end up with no bitcoin and a dozen credit cards.
mircea_popescu: and yes,
the
turbo was originally a ship-and-train
tech, in
the 20s or w/e.
mircea_popescu: ie,
there's some power sent
to
the wheels
through engine 1 by engine 2.
mircea_popescu: point being
that in
the modern diesel, a
turbine is attached
to
the carnot engine, much in
the manner in which in a modern hybrid, a carnot engine is attached
to
the electric motor.
mircea_popescu: whether you attach
the items
to
the drive
train via electric exchange ; or whether you attach
them via
the historical arrangement known as
turbocharger, in point of fact you've put some items
to work for your
transmission.
mircea_popescu: mmkay. it's really
the air under
the fore wing
that's
the plane's engine.
mircea_popescu: in
this sense jet engine does not power
the jet because... gases moving about do.
mircea_popescu: you ever saw
the fucking item ? how is it not a
turbine ?
mircea_popescu: no, we are having
the
thread where "turbine is not nao
turbine because it's different"
mircea_popescu: but on what grounds do you disqualify it from "turbine", other
than "it successfuly masquerades as something else, fooling me"
mircea_popescu: the statement was "some kind of
turbine under
the hood, even if masquerading as a more
traditional something or other".
mircea_popescu: and i will note
that your policy of strongly held opinions in poorly known fields is not working so well. not re
turbines, not re stem cells etc.
phf`: right, well
the originals are presumably
TeX formatted ps files, so it's impossible
to butcher
that part. somehow
they can't seem
to get it pressed properly. maybe it's just my luck
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 14:13 phf`:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-11#1654941 << so i got a replacement copy, in it's in even worse state
than
the first one!
this one
the entire lower edge is butchered during cutting. automated self-publishing ftw
Framedragger: asciilifeform: i linked
to illustrate
the diff between enabled vs provisioned. let's not do another confused is/ought debate
Framedragger: so in
theory, a wordpress hax0r could provision AMT if AMT was enabled,
thus opening up
the remote diddling
thing
a111: Logged on 2017-05-11 21:24 phf`:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1653984 << so i got a copy, mine had a mechanical looking gash in
the spine, had
to send it for replacement. otherwise it's not horrible. it's a cheap
thermal binding, but
the paper is crisp, and
the source is
TeX so it looks reasonable.
Framedragger: and computers are not computers in
the first place; does not negate
the point about "if enabled, still bad, and good
to know/check."
Framedragger: where was
that link
to intel's content-less advisory... it had
two parts, one remote, one local
Framedragger: but it seems
that it's
then possible
to run *local* exploit (privilege escalation)
phf`: that article was inoffensive, but sloppy. some offhand points i
think required elaboration (i.e. missing republican footnotes!), others were superfluous
☟︎ Framedragger: well,
that's why i said "dunno if any good". on *cursory* glance, nothing mischievous, but obvs wouldn't v-sign it
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 09:08 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655457 << doing a mediocre job of it,
too. stem cell research actually yielded various practical results. mostly obscure bone marrow diseases, but hey, it's only obscure until you get it.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 12:19 Framedragger: HN spit out
https://github.com/mjg59/mei-amt-check , dunno if any good, maybe need
to check later.
to be clear, AMT won't be provisioned "by default", and it being provisioned is
the worser
thang.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 09:18 mircea_popescu: ro
train engines were
that way for a long
time
too, owing
to
the peculiar
terrain.
mircea_popescu: ro
train engines were
that way for a long
time
too, owing
to
the peculiar
terrain.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 04:57 ben_vulpes: dual-input or electric
to
the shaft?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 04:46 ben_vulpes: my point is don't use
the battery as anything other
than a
temporal load leveler, and bam you have yourself effectively a clutch.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655475 << he has a point
though, every redesign cycle
the momentum-based store (like
they use in eg F1 cars) comes back
to
the drawing board.
turns out having a small heavy well spinning real fast is not really much worse
than
trying
to store energy in batteries.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 04:40 ben_vulpes: just had
to wait for people
to realize y'hook 'em up
to batteries and not
the
tranny directly of course.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 03:54 ben_vulpes: any objections
to a vpatch doing away with
the
truncation of hashes in
the
trb log?
ben_vulpes will be doting on
the mothers in his life on
the morrow
ben_vulpes: and in "today's nobel,
tomorrow's homework", eventually bitcoin clients will be
the republic's software engineering masterwork project.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 15:11 asciilifeform: and 'dead bitcoin', esp. if it dies on enemy's
terms, would imho be a
technogenic catastrophe, quite comparable
to, e.g., chernobyl. ( not for mircea_popescu 'i'm rich anyway, fuck everyone' , and not for other folx, who might not even have any; but for
the concept of 'gold sans
the guard labour')
ben_vulpes: it may
take some
time, especially at my glacial pace, but i
think slicing
the wallet from
the reference implementation (which i don't
think is going anywhere?) a worthwhile endeavour.