asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actually no secret why. no one (and i mean no one) is making a serious serial-execution non-x86 cpu today
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: notice how the remaining consoles are lightly-modified x86 boxes internally ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: beria actually picked up women... << based on the sources, i don't regard it as a solid historical fact☟︎
asciilifeform: hruschev was a whole gensec and what did that get him after retirement.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they have nothing. this is proof positive that the cia is as worthless as the vassar feminist book club; think about hassling beria in that manner << to be fair, p. was no longer heading anything when he was 'flushed'.
asciilifeform: or was it idiot after-the-fact mock-up
asciilifeform: out of context it reads not entirely unlike something lizardhitler would say to prisoners being lowered into shark pit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you don't pay free men what you want to pay them. you pay half of what you make or you die at their hands. << l0l, why only half? why not 100% plus one's saleable organs? and who are 'free men' ?☟︎
asciilifeform invites interested readers to carry out own inquiries
asciilifeform: 'The proposed architecture is novel or unusual for commercial transport airplanes by enabling connection to previously isolated data networks connected to systems that perform functions required for the safe operation of the airplane.'
asciilifeform: (much unexplored design space in dildonics. for instance, a cylindrical/topologically-toroidal 'conveyor' with belt that recirculates through inner hollow, could product impression of infinite length)
asciilifeform: anyway, travelling-wave dildo doesn't seem to exist, and i never knew why
asciilifeform: a 'turbosquid' ought not to be anything but a powered, peristaltic, multi-tentacular autodildatron.
asciilifeform: establishment, and that pressure to succeed might sporadically give rise to improved performance, leading to at least a few instances of success. But if in fact failure is no problem at all, and if instead there was some sort of pressure to fail, then we would see exactly what we do see.'
asciilifeform: 'Looking at this broad landscape of failure, there are two ways to interpret it. One is that the US officialdom is the most incompetent one imaginable, and can't ever get anything right. But another is that they do not succeed for a distinctly different reason: they don't succeed because results don't matter. You see, if failure were a problem, then there would be some sort of pressure coming from somewhere or other within the
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno how i missed that
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: b-n should be c-n in turdogram
asciilifeform: programmers (esp. ones who see it on the net one time, rather than using seriously) exquisitely hate it. the users, on the other hand, whose 'boeing' stays up and who never have to learn that the program exists at all - love it.
asciilifeform: ada is also used in the banking sector (the only countries for which i have strong clues of this being the fact are ch and ua)
asciilifeform: (there's a 'bleeding edge' version pushed out by ada foundation, which slowly merges back into gcc, as i understand. that version is also gpl, but the standard lib is also gpl - unlike the gcc ada, where it is lgpl)
asciilifeform: as for the compiler, it's been part of vanilla gcc for years.
asciilifeform: decimation: but it appears that the thing is genuinely popular among the very small but very well-paid set of folks who write programs that -actually have to work-
asciilifeform: decimation: i've no personal knowledge of american ada 'warez' being used in ru (PL/I, oddly enough - yes)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: us navy... china sea... cheaper rocker << line of thought was about rocket (or equiv.) that the 'next joe stack' can build. rather then chinese navy.
asciilifeform: by how much, requires a very detailed study of surviving soviet literature. which i presently lack the time for. but might get back to one day
asciilifeform: for batteries which don't need to be 'safe' or reusable or dirt-cheap - this changes.
