asciilifeform: i remarked to the pet: 'my well-informed colleagues explained to me that science knows of three species of hoarders: 'clean,' 'dirty', and 'cat' '
asciilifeform: well, the invocation of stretching gurlz etc. certainly suggested interaction of the flesh-to-flesh kind
asciilifeform: if indirectly, as 'horseman' of popescucalypse - then surely.
asciilifeform: just observing that 'homo welfaricus', male and female, will live and die without encountering mircea_popescu, by approximately same reason as elevator - grizzly.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: what if it gives you money through six intermediaries, and instead of 'not doing anything' you have to put on a robe and chant rain prayer every day ?
asciilifeform waits for mircea_popescu to write sequel, 'too dumb to build igloos'
asciilifeform: somewhere, long ago, one fella (lost the link, unfortunately) described the 'in tech' folks as quite like the quasi-retarded assistants in a magic show, who think that the performance is actually -about- the ropes and trap doors
asciilifeform: recall dijkstra's observation re: how we might regard an astronomer who introduces self as 'working in telescopy' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is zoologist, not 'tech'
asciilifeform: lol, how did it go... 'paul graham: programmers, like painters, like making things. audience wag: so do chickens!'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: carefree l0l. so nubbins` prints because he likes the smell of ink ?
asciilifeform: (there are nominally others but outside of usg you will never see them)
asciilifeform: mats: it is, in practice, the last remaining commercial unix
asciilifeform: what kind of dope it was necessary to smoke, to arrive at this notion, i still do not know.
asciilifeform: on a machine with von neumann arch, and even things like dma, no less
asciilifeform: mats: can you believe, they took seriously the idea that process separation (which barely works in 'userland') could apply to device drivers!
asciilifeform: mats: aha, 'microkernel', academitardia circa late '80s-early-'90s that apple folks still live with today.
asciilifeform: shakespeare suffers from the other problem of backups, much lamented by astronomy/physics folk crying over old pdp-8 tapes. that is, loss of reading mechanisms...)
asciilifeform: what would we know of proper shakespeare then
