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mircea_popescu: i don't think there exists more accessible sensitive photodiode.
asciilifeform: this doesn't even go through plexiglas.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we're talking 430nm or so
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 14:14 Framedragger: asciilifeform: are you planning on building an entropy source based on them, then? :) need a good uv light reader, or something?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653047 << this is a slow-burning effort, Framedragger . currently stuck on finding a pin diode that 1) has any uv sensitivity to speak of 2) doesn't cost its weight in diamonds ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the coins are totally like dubloons, too.
asciilifeform cements image of mircea_popesculandia as treasure island now in head
mircea_popescu: that and trunks. everyone got numerous trunks.
mircea_popescu: i think i've 50lbs on the premises.
asciilifeform: i did take photo of water, from yacht, but it's a snore, didn't even feel like posting.
asciilifeform: somehow did not think of it. and not of wearing silver dishes on head, either...
mircea_popescu: didja take pics leaning on it ?
asciilifeform: speaking of auto, i recently for the first time in entire life saw a 'bentley'.
asciilifeform: su built 10,000 tonne hover.
asciilifeform: this is 20th c. tech, nothing martian about it
asciilifeform: ( and if you see a head-on collision coming, can gun the vertical thruster and try to jump over it... )
ben_vulpes: but also if you're the sort of person who side-loads yr tyres a) you undestand that stick is not purely a function of lateral g's b) you deliberately break traction when you want to anyways
mircea_popescu: ie, given 0-60 in 1 second, that would be about 2.77 g
asciilifeform: it seems entirely the thing to do.
ben_vulpes: lateral g's are an interesting thing to keep an eye on
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform presuming for unknown reasons acceleration constant, there's a strict relation between it and 0-60 timings.
mircea_popescu: but it's good g's. they're bad when rotating occipitally.
asciilifeform: (forward, that is. sudden braking is not anybody's idea of lulz)
mircea_popescu: you can calc this, neh ?
asciilifeform: i knew a d00d who had a g-sensor on the dash of his 500 horse bmw. laughable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform talk to mthreat, he did the "driving for fun" thjing for a while. eventually moved on to buying jets and shit. addictions are addcitive!!!
mircea_popescu: yeah. i think birds deeply care about your head plumage, which you might not even known you had.
mircea_popescu: (for some reason this bothers birds. turkeys are very reactive. then again all sorts of things bother birds -- when we checked out the parrots had to have girls take hats off. bothers them sometrhing fierce.)
mircea_popescu: as opposed to turkey, then pinky and thumb touch, other thumb touches nose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thumbs connected to tempe on either side, rest of fingers apart moving
asciilifeform: what's to 'moose' ?
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner yes. you can maintain coversation continuity even if your connection fails. so no need to apologize.
mircea_popescu: next stop, girl mooses him. but like, in all seriousness, turns around, does it. she's in a cocktail dress, i'm in a suit, they're NOT LOOKING
asciilifeform: i had an old colleague who lived in arizona, in the desert, had sov 'ural' motorbike.
mircea_popescu: both dude and his girl pretend to not notice. they peel off again
mircea_popescu: round and turkey the driver. total idiot look, you know the "drab tshirt, close shaved for beard and hair, stupid glasses" i-m-a-java-engineer look ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta love the folx who buy 12-cyl mazeratis to go REALLYREALLYFAST!!! between same red lights as the toyota goes << oh i had the lulz of all time with this yest. so we were coming back, in cab. on other side, porsche SUV! black! dude just peels off like crazy, in the middle of the night. i go "hey, i think he won" and dun think more of it. till... guess who's lined up at next stop ? oh, us and them. so i turn a
asciilifeform: one day i want to be shown this place where 'driving is fun'
ben_vulpes: but driving as a thing done for fun.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: we are not talking of "having" to drive
Framedragger: gizmolearner: http://btcbase.org/log ; http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema ; http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/today ; pasting anchor hrefs from the first and the last will make bots sitting in channel quote those lines
asciilifeform: i'll repeat my old verdict: the fastest, most luxurious, most cushioned, most speedtrap-proof auto, is ~not having to drive~
ben_vulpes: cops need the freedom to go after the maseratis alone.
ben_vulpes: but they only park the vans in certain places, have to put up signs some quarter mile before
asciilifeform: ( in east usa there are still some radars, and massive fines for radar trap finder )
asciilifeform: neato. ben_vulpes's city must be 100% cameratronic then
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform zee germanz have no speed limit thing.
ben_vulpes: ah this
asciilifeform: these do 0 against camera trap
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner you know how to use the logs ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the autobahn without the speed booby exists somewhere near valhalla, in asgard.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: just because you don't have open highways doesn't mean they don't exist, aren't used
ben_vulpes: "one season following another/laden with happiness and tears"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gotta disagree, hot-fusor seems to be immortal grantomatic
mircea_popescu: apparently the winter was temporary.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 17:11 ben_vulpes: Framedragger: now imagine you have a car that actually goes fast
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653301 << gotta love the folx who buy 12-cyl mazeratis to go REALLYREALLYFAST!!! between same red lights as the toyota goes ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : i was walking with a girl, she groks maths and things, we were lulzing at the socioeconomic/politicoscamful aspect of qc. ended up discussing its future, i said it's on the outs, no gimmick long outlives its failure to produce anything, and the qc has been promising stuff for long enough now. i said, "i just dunno what they're moving to next, but they'll move".
asciilifeform: gotta also love the 'imminent mega-ai' from the same folx who brought us crashing microshit excel.
mircea_popescu: not like we can do math or know enough physics to know what to do math upon or anything.
mircea_popescu: god knows they were right about the flying cars / submerged cities, so why not this also.
mircea_popescu: well... maybe the tremendously ever-improving ai opens up a whole bunch of galaxies' worth of new leaves, like sf promised.
mircea_popescu: leik how they cleanned up europe cca 1500 yes ?
asciilifeform: it's the only tru way to properly clean anything!111 phakt!!
mircea_popescu: srsly, this is also how silkworms clean up their lab. better make sure you got a new layer of mulberry leaves atop for them to move to OR ELSE THEY DIE!!
mircea_popescu: next you're going to tell me silk comes out your ass.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i clean by moving to new lab, lol
asciilifeform: asciilifeform did not clean up the year+ of work that led to it for publication 'for the lulz' or for whatever idiot reddit reason.
mircea_popescu: well, then again alf might be the exception. hey, do you enjoy cleaning the lab ?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, a lab that nobody spends time cleaning shows it.
asciilifeform: gizmolearner: keep in mind that the article that brought you here, would not exist if not but for the 'politics'.
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner honestly i don't think anyone is. politics is like cleanning, nobody builds himself a lab for the joy of having to clean it up periodically.
ben_vulpes: "it's there, i guess we gotta put something in it"
mircea_popescu: hey, me too. what's one to do ?
ben_vulpes: i will admit to the same
mircea_popescu: i guess he doesn't care for chan topics.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i long ago came to terms with my poor acuity.
mircea_popescu: to make it a wot contest rather than a popularity contest, ie, to remove the franchise from the britney spears demo.
Framedragger goes to rearrange life
ben_vulpes: Framedragger: now imagine you have a car that actually goes fast ☟︎
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner well, that's what the republic is for. literally, tmsr = the republic of the leftover.
Framedragger: ben_vulpes: true :( (painfully aware of it)...
gizmolearner: Yeah, but who will be left over? If people are actually obsolete, it's just a popularity contest in then end.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i wasn't even going to go into how i spot a lot more tiny geckos, lost earrings, etc than my glass-blessed friends.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 15:35 mircea_popescu: and yes you have some dB loss because of the resistence of the medium. "i couldn't see that light officer". of course not, it was faint and you were wearing glasses.
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653118 << also ruins the peripheral vision, demanding more head-swiveling ☝︎
ben_vulpes: imagine learning to strike an arc without one!
ben_vulpes: relatedly, imagine my relief upgrading to the self-darkening welding mask
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah, yeah, popular with welders, that thing, and cnc mill people.
ben_vulpes: oh yeah those are great asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: planet is about 99% pork bellies belabouring under the delusion of humanity. this fat will be trimmed, but the process or the delusion speak not to actual people.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i wear 'riot shield' face thing in machine shop. worx great. and 0 sweating.
ben_vulpes: also proper impact resistant glasses when i had to sojurn across the fab floor when i did that.
mircea_popescu: hard to draw this "ouitside of uni" line, but first approx.
gizmolearner: So if we go further and say at some point everyone is obsolete, then you are left with a power struggle between those who happened to be in a place of power and those who aren't so fortunate. All are potentially obsolete.
asciilifeform: i've yet to meet these, 'good ones', sweat evaporates and condenses inside the lenses, ick.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get good ones. but anyway, i do, in the grand total i dunno, 100 hours i spent in a chem lab over three decades.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~nobody actually wears the school goggles in actual lab. they 'sweat'.
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner i actually believe that point was cca 2005.
mircea_popescu: same in chem lab. you are of course wearing airtight goggles, yes ? then ?