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mircea_popescu: if you want to keep slaves -- then YOU administer the keeping of the slaves. you don't ask sheriff of wherver county to implement the fugitive slave act. and so on. who wants prng makes prng, does not get to pretend "oh, kernel has this knob for me, '''im not entirely sure what it does lol'''" tongue in cheek bs, '''i just dress like this, it doesn't mean anyhthing''' etc.
mircea_popescu: every time xantipa interrupted her illustious husband with some nonsense or other, rite.
mircea_popescu: "i wonder how much science was fucked out of existence / significantly delayed by #metoo-isms and in general, spurious involvement of idiots"
mircea_popescu: honestly, just buy 2mn dice, put them all in a large bag hoisted to a pole and let it drop.
mircea_popescu: i heard same years ago from astrophysics simulator folks.
mircea_popescu: oh sorry, you labelled "related lulz/disinfo". i had it in buffer, got around to it, and well...
mircea_popescu: so fucking stupid it's not even wrong. it's just too stupid to anything else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why did you link that exercise in idiocy re urand above ?
mircea_popescu: perfectly illustrates my point re terrible management. but yes.
mircea_popescu: it's not so much "ti could have been the intel-microsoft/apple", but rather... it was. fucking was.
mircea_popescu: kinda why i even took up the logline. it might be the worst #blackchickscode #womenarepeopletoo #slavesrightsnao #lxsdumbxs etc etc failure in history.
mircea_popescu: other than this, computing was pretty much 100% radar signal processing at the time.
mircea_popescu: "Texas Instruments delivers the first Advanced Scientific Computer (also called Advanced Seismic Computer), containing 4 pipelines with an 80 ns clock time. Vector instructions were memory-to-memory. Seven of these machines are later built, and an aggressive automatic vectorizing FORTRAN compiler is developed for them. It is the first machine to contain SECDED (Single Error Correction, Double Error Detection) memory. " << als
mircea_popescu: right. otherwise it becomes this arbitrary-point anachronism in the vein of "grandmother should have fucked better sailors on the basis of how retarded granson is, and i can prove this by showing grandson was alive at an arbitrary point in time grandmother hadn't died yet."
mircea_popescu: either you go "early", in which case 1971 is before 1977 ; or else you go "mass adoption", in which case killer micro is 1990s, but rsa is EXACTLY gribble-assbot schism, cca 2013.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rsa first published 1977 ; Intel produces the world's first single-chip CPU, the 4004 microprocessor. in 1971.
mircea_popescu: but yes, access to entropy is by now the one underpinning of being a citizen.
mircea_popescu: rsa not born yet ; all our practice not yet practiced. i can scarcely blame aurel vlaicu for using textile fixed wing.
mircea_popescu: in the 1980s engineers / cstronicists' defense, it was not yet understood how important entropy is to individuality and human existence.
mircea_popescu: there's a time when the hotglue guns and bimbo-chewed gum comes out.
mircea_popescu: i am by now thoroughly allergic to this "downstream wants something upstream doesn't provide, so it's neither time to bring out the whips and chains upon the downstream nor to throw out the upstream and bake a new one, but instead let's hotwire the microwave ballast to the toaster."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason i even called it ideological patch is because the pretense that shitropy-eaters have anyhthing to do with entropy, or us, must be shot in the head.
mircea_popescu: and none of the "but mp, if i make it the size i think it should be it crashes" bs.
mircea_popescu: ie, if the most shitropy you ever want in one gulp is x, make manager thread create that chunk in contiguous memory and keep it full.
mircea_popescu: have your own program designed correctly, so your own shitropy management thread ensures your own shitropy calls always return in constant time. YOUR JOB, as a shitropy eater.
mircea_popescu: im kinda happy with darlana's red hair-rubies & vatawna's golden locks.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i kinda like playing heroes2 on lappies, >50% of their utility, whip it out while camping or w/e. but...
mircea_popescu: imo this half-problem was born for being trampled ignominously, but then again that's just me.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me your problem is not having a 3d printer./
mircea_popescu: all. because, whether they expect 16:9 or 4:3 or 19:6 or anything else, you can... margin it!
mircea_popescu: so wait, wait. these idiots managed to create dialing ambiguity ?!
mircea_popescu: alf be like "hello ? oh, is this nicole ? JUST CALLED TO TELL YOU YOUR PHONE ANSWERING SUCKS! i mean... i was expecting it to improve but it turns out NOT"
mircea_popescu: (kindergarten mp once famously convinced smitten kitten to sit put for playdo shoving up nostrils "to see what happens". emergency room visit happened, and very sad & contrite mp.)
mircea_popescu: in a word, ave1 : don't be shy. there's a time to be shy, but when they bring out the playdo's not that time. shove it up shirts, see what happens.
mircea_popescu: this way we also get to explore that fabled tree resolution stuff in v.
mircea_popescu: ave1 you can literally make it alternate patch to the table crc32, so one can press either, according to need/want.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but imo by now this is getting overengineered. let's revisit it if/when becomes importanrt.
mircea_popescu: though, logically, if we care enough about permanence rather than existence, more logical to also make euro free number, and add euro located respondent, and then criss-cross these on 2nd pass.
mircea_popescu: this might be useful, but i'm not putting a 2nd slavegirl on this galley.
mircea_popescu: aite. i was gonna pay myself, but see no problem with tbf picking it up either. all yours.
mircea_popescu: "this salami costs as much as that cheese, ERGO THIS SALAMI IS THAT CHEESE". and this phone thing dns, and so on.
mircea_popescu: if the pricepoint's any indication... and the pricepoint always is the first and foremost indication.
mircea_popescu: the us is the premiere technology and things in the werld!
mircea_popescu: motherfucker get pics, you have any idea how oldschool cool this is getting to be ?
mircea_popescu: wait, wait. there's a chick with ye olde metal probes making contacts on the board ?