asciilifeform: already microshit in fact banned iron vendors from shipping drivers for xp for any reason.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: entirely possible, understaffed monkey house stretched thin and tired of maintaining pills for ancient shitsoft
asciilifeform: ( current offering -- includes, and not even attempted to hide any moar )
asciilifeform: seem to be particularly interested in exterminating 'xp', which was porous & bsody but at least not then included keylogger straight off the install , just yet
asciilifeform: re microshit 'os' in boxes -- seems like they see primary competition currently as being... old versions of own shit. ( recently they demonstratively had a d00d jailed, not even for 'pirated' but for selling at flea markets ~old winblowz~ disks )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you upturn an old lappy, you can see whether it was bought orig in gringolandia, and had the winblowz tax, they stuck little stickers on'em
asciilifeform: ( today even 'os tax' is paid largely from usg coffers, when they buy tetristrons for the desk jockeys )
asciilifeform: re microshit 'just is' -- iirc the inflection point was some time in late '90s, when they switched to being fueled entirely by 'os tax' on all konsoomer pc irons, and dispensed with the pretense of 'folx make choice to buy os, in cardboard box'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sovok 'ads' were typically of 'agit' variety -- stern lenin face with 'lenin bids you to keep yer lathe clean and reduce workplace fatalities' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are some ads that dun even pretend to make sense from commercial pov, and are strictly 'behold the glory of the great inca'. i used to ride the train erry day, it would as often as not be covered in ads for lockheed, grumman, etc, with photo of latest $trillion will-get-stuck-in-erry-canal boat, submarine, etc
asciilifeform: ( already they removed the buttons from pnoje )
asciilifeform: can't wait for the logical end of this, when they cut e.g. the screen ( 'why do you need a screen, terrorist. talk to the box with mouth..' ) and eventually will ship a http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 i expect.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re crapple, it's become a rich generator of lulz : their current strategy seems to consist of, per iteration of product : 1) cut an essential component (e.g. headphone jack) , and declare 'fashionable' 2) double price
asciilifeform: largely unrelatedly, today asciilifeform uncrated a spool of 70kV insulating tape, and surprised to discover that it is made with... mastic. y'know, how ~all~ electrician's tape used to be made, in ww2 and prior
asciilifeform: strangely enuff, there are still ads for intel
asciilifeform: come to think of it , i can't recall when last saw a winblowz ad as such
asciilifeform: i dun recall this slogan appearing in gringolandia-side ads, but reminiscent of crapple's 'think differently' or what was it
asciilifeform: iirc this aint new even, was in ada-83.
asciilifeform: it gotta actually enforce the 'copying this thing is an eggog', trigger the death procedure when it goes out of scope, etc
asciilifeform: cuz theres no way to do it without support from the compiler.
asciilifeform: ( there's a range of things you aint allowed to do with a controlled type, chiefly to copy it )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's very similar to cpp 'destructor' aha. with the diff that ada forces various limitations re the item, to prevent various cpp-esque lulz
asciilifeform: mmap is 1 of the few nice things in linux , lets you e.g. map a 1tb segment and store as file, and will actually 'sparse' store etc.
asciilifeform: obviates a good number of scenarios where otherwise you'd want to use a db system.
asciilifeform: lets you have e.g. the trb indexer thing, as ordinary array, etc
asciilifeform: both give you a direct path from a data structure to/from disk.
asciilifeform: this was a shot at improved (pointerism-free, externally) variant of earlier system 'horsecocks'
asciilifeform: this is done with a standard ada feature called 'controlled limited type'. which i found that, for no documented reason, dunwork in gnat's static lib.☟︎
asciilifeform: observe that 'M' knows when the end of its life comes, and gets synced to disk (if applicable , i.e. was mapped r/w) and properly cleaned up, without any such abortion as a 'free' statement a la c
asciilifeform: esp. when iron is big enuff that folx fall into the sin of perceiving cpu cycles & bytes of ram as 'infinite' and phree
asciilifeform: i dun disagree with (what i think is) mircea_popescu's upstack point, tho, bigger machine gives you bigger wrench to drop on yer foot re complexity.
asciilifeform: not always will find it in dictionaries. but surely exists.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i currently suspect that all langs on planet3, living and extinct, have term for 'anal child'. it's a reasonably common bio-failuremode, like schizo etc.
asciilifeform: ftr it's a ru cognate (1 of the rare genuine ones, vs. 'truda' etc ) . точило == grinding wheel.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i read buncha trilema, lolwat.
asciilifeform: what were the latter called on mircea_popescu's home planet, iirc , tocilarii ?
asciilifeform: even in 1st grade, it was obv who were the kids who liked to think, and who 'memorize encyclopaedia' to lick arses of elders, the little shits, the kanzures.
asciilifeform: the ancients built locks where one needed just-so screw thread to open. and we're sorta still doing this.
asciilifeform: or recall the scytale thing ( 'original rsa' )
asciilifeform: anyffin at all risks to stop being interesting to thinking folx, when it turns into a contest of who memorized moar trivia from encyclopaedia.
asciilifeform: e.g. chess, died imho long before mechanized with machine. killed by 'debut books' , a kind of meat-powered alphago death.
