asciilifeform: fucker knows what he's doing. not ignorant.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i still fucking hate that piece. the sheer mendacity of rich hickey in saying 'simplicity matters' while crapping all over lisp concept☟︎
asciilifeform: 'If however, anyone feels personally abused, threatened, or otherwise uncomfortable due to this process, that is not acceptable. If so, please contact the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board at...' << linus begins to totter ?!!?
asciilifeform: (think about micrometeorites, etc. and occasionally there is a cosmic ray travelling with the energy of a well-thrown baseball.)
asciilifeform: -if- it could be made to travel fast enough.
asciilifeform: one could literally pierce a tank with a compressed turd
asciilifeform: it is interesting to remember that, at a certain velocity, it no longer really matters what a bullet is made of
asciilifeform: but again this is an ancient idea, not mine.
asciilifeform: need to have some notion of stoichiometry and strength of materials to avoid creating self-grenade instead of musket
asciilifeform: (and ignited, of course, via electrical spark)
asciilifeform: where the propellant is H and O produced via electrolysis for each shot
asciilifeform: incidentally, to continue an earlier thread with mircea_popescu et al re: 'jungle bullet' - has anyone ever attempted to militarize the old familiar 'hydrogen cannon' ?
asciilifeform: eventually a 'multicopter' (perhaps usg provocateur-piloted) will be used in some loud, public vandalism (graffiti of $landmark or wtf) and it'll be 'reichstag fire'
asciilifeform: what will almost certainly be usg-banned quite soon - and banned the way chemistry as a class was, rather than as specific types of small arm were - is flying machines
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: good physical reasons why you would not want to be standing even behind such a thing, much less holding it, when fired
asciilifeform: usg could and did put down rebellion even in the era when arbitrary hardware was permitted to whoever could afford it
asciilifeform: trinque: it isn't like one could cut through a phalanx of usg stormtroopers and stay legally in the clear simply because the machine is not banned per se
asciilifeform: but still entertaining, this omission.
asciilifeform: not that appropriate text couldn't be crapped into the penal code overnight if lizardhitler wished it, mind you
asciilifeform: there are prohibitions on nukes (lol), poisons, and biowar - but that's, iirc, it.
asciilifeform: e.g., arbalest, laser, electron beam weapon, etc.
asciilifeform: my understanding is that in usa, war machines that do not use pyrotechnic effects are not considered 'arms' and are not regulated at the national level☟︎
asciilifeform: (in usa - anything that has only one hilt it being roughly 90 degree to the barrel, iirc, is legally 'pistol')
asciilifeform: still not sure how anything the size of a 1990s laptop can be called a 'pistol' with a straight face
asciilifeform: the one that makes it mandatory if ever becomes available on the market ?
asciilifeform: and this apparently is a great irritant to many marksmanship types who would much like electrical striker for a few percent decrease in mechanical jitter
asciilifeform: on account of being a software patch away from full auto
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: iirc 'smart' in the sense of electrical detonation is explicitly forbidden
asciilifeform: only retracted when found a new use for the armed thugs
asciilifeform: that'd be like a lion un-eating a gazelle
asciilifeform: when has usg legalized anything formerly forbidden ?☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: reprieve << ahaha lol no. it's the usual 'we'll slip it up your arse later when brouhaha is over and nobody's paying attention' usg business.
asciilifeform: incidentally, my explanation at 14:39:46 is a bit broken but i'll leave it as exercise for the reader.
asciilifeform: and there's something palpably poisonous about that page
asciilifeform wrote a flame many years ago and the 'butthurt' over it never seems to abate
asciilifeform: '...we should start with cleaner hardware, then write a cleaner replacement for the JVM (same cross-platform capabilities!?, same performance optimisations!?), as well as all its libraries... we'd be busy at least for another decade and required backing from several large companies.'
asciilifeform: (that, afaik, is the limit of what anyone with actual funding has dared)
asciilifeform: somebody even sells a clockless 'arm'.
asciilifeform: but one can put together a few mil. of these, without any apparent daemonic possession of the machine, is what we experimentally have so far.
asciilifeform: rather than physical effect of individual gate
asciilifeform: unless novel hell is of some higher-level mathematical variety
asciilifeform: exhibits other interesting properties.
asciilifeform: but at any rate they do not end up wedged in practice (folks with $maxint have built otherwise conventional cpu without clock using c-gate, they don't wedge)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not sure if this is rigorously proven, but approximately yes
asciilifeform: my concern because life is short and i want to compute with c-gates.
asciilifeform: not necessarily impossible - but who's to say when.
asciilifeform: but if didn't show, only explained why, the thing would have to be re-invented to be built
asciilifeform: because an ordinary logic gate can enter a 'metastable' wedge-state if it is given a 'pathological' input transition (i.e. you try to use the output before the inputs are stable)
asciilifeform: they have to wait for inputs to 'settle'
