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mircea_popescu: anyway,
to repurpose an ustardism, "in a world starved of whorish
talent, it is hard
to lose money hiring sophomores from moscow u."
mircea_popescu: phf` go
to moscow, incorporate, hire a coupla hookers at
the moscow uni, pref 2nd/3rd year, send one
to baikal once you're done fucking
them ?
phf`: i'll look into it next
trip
mircea_popescu: here's a
thought : incorporate in moscow, hire a coupla call girls, pay
their salary and send
them
to find you pieces.
phf`: tried sourcing it, no dice. person i know who could've helped recently moved
to germany
phf`: asciilifeform: not a friend, a ru reverser
that i've spoken
to, presumably he accepts hardware from all givers
https://zeptobars.com ben_vulpes: these are
the lolz
that are good for buttcoin.
ben_vulpes: in other waaaat, spicer hiding in bushes
to avoid questions about comey
mircea_popescu: and champion seeds
that are plowed under every night won't ever champion anything, next field will raise an economically relevant crop of
tubers if left undisturbed.
mircea_popescu: a woman
that'd make a great wife STILL HAS
TO spend more
than a few weeks on one man
to achieve
that potential.
mircea_popescu: here's
the
thing :
the reason you do not see results commensurate with your perceived (and for all anyone knows, correctly perceived) subjective capacity is
that you do not provide yourself with proper basis and sufficient
time
to make it happen.
mircea_popescu: right. is
the subtext
that if only you were somehow involved
this'd have been averted ?
gabriel_laddel_p: rocket explosion + failure of a PATRIOT missile
to hit its
target, resulting in 28 deaths.
gabriel_laddel_p: The article also lists 2 disasters
that resulted from floating point errors
gabriel_laddel_p: mircea_popescu: an addition
to
the story
that "floating point must die": because otherwise intelligent people who have PHDs, write haskell & work on stuff we useveryday end up making less-than-obvious mistakes without realizing it.
mircea_popescu: yes, but why is
the happenstance
that some dood with
the right robes made $mistake relevant ?
gabriel_laddel_p: anyways, just another addition
to ascii's "floating point has
to die"
thread.
gabriel_laddel_p: mircea_popescu: read
the article. Or just
the smooth surprise part. It isn't an overflow error
gabriel_laddel_p: I was hanging out with aerospace ppl, one of whom works on computer aircraft software -- gave him
the function in question and
told him it had a floating point error, asked what it was
mircea_popescu: is it related
to
the "ven" bs nefario was pushing at his stallman-attended scamference ?
mircea_popescu: is
there an english equivalent
to
the ancient romanian "an idiot
throws a stone overboard and
ten philosophers can't fish it back out" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when you're done with
that you can cycle
through
the realtek until you document it and reverse
the blob, we'll be good.
trinque: you (snort) you gotta go big asciilifeform, just make
the (pounds desk)
the list of all hardware.
gabriel_laddel_p: I can't imagine
this would
take more
than 5 days + a bunch of coffee.
mircea_popescu: "eight." "eight what ?" "eight million. when i was a kid i figured you had
to get eight million
together
to be considered a legitimate rich guy. so i got busy".
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: I have a partial list of hardware related items from
the logs.
gabriel_laddel_p: I just
turned up an extra $100 and will happily venmo it
to you
today if you JUST DO IT.
mircea_popescu: can't lay out silk for an umbrella without
the spikes or how it went.
mircea_popescu: it might provide fine support for alf
to
transition from
the phase of "i can't write a
trilema"
to
the phase of "there it is, read it
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform: I don't care about how long, just want
the price
gabriel_laddel_p: asciilifeform:
this pattern where hardware is named in-channel and
then you comment on it is highly inefficient. How much would you charge (USD, via paypal/venmo)
to iterate
through a-zA-Z, 0-9, #\!
thru #\) and name each and every item of computer hardware related
to it you possibly can + give a review.
Then
to encrypt
the resulting
text file
to a
mircea_popescu: miught make a fine offering for
the eventual
tmsr isp, just as soon as anyone gets off
their intellectual arse and actually starts living life instead of dreaming it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as far as "headless whatever" item is concerned
trinque it seems
to me something you can rack is a better choice
than something you gotta keep around
the house / out of dog's mouth etc.
trinque: I am not yet
this cynical, if only for my own dick-pulling.
mircea_popescu: for me personally,
the "young soviet" personified by cptn breznev was rather instructive.
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't
think
they'll ever do something useful
though, for
the reason
that it's useful. somehow
the drones intuit and avoid any non-drony un-pointless meaningful activity.
trinque: army of excitable young dickheads are meanwhile all farting around winking at us from
their android devices or whatever
trinque: wasn't hardware
thread. got dragged
there because reasons.
trinque: if
these are retarded let
teh youf mark
the idiocy with
their bodies
mircea_popescu: nic will say whatever ip it fuckinfg feels like saying
that day
mircea_popescu: hardly. what exactly do you even want
to "ban ips for" on your realtek nic asciilifeform ?
trinque: what do
they use it on, running weed around and whatnot
trinque: and what of
teenagers being expendable and
this being a vastly undertapped resource?
mircea_popescu: no, have motherboard design where
the "dma" is a specified bank, and
the cpu ram is a different bank ; and let it call whichever it specifically wants.
trinque: and have all
the excited
teenagers stick
them everywhere
trinque: I dunno what strategic sense it makes
to as yet have no mechanical way
to stamp out a full
trb node
mircea_popescu: so
tmsr computing wishlist goes a) ram insulating motherboard ; b) fully open nic
to fuckgoats standards.
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd feel happier with random hp box behind proper nic
than with special-gentoo-special-raspberypi with rotm realtek/whatever