asciilifeform: thing is, the requirements are somewhat peculiar (minimal bandwidth, max cpu/ram, minimal disk)
asciilifeform: 'you need to go fuck yourself in the arsehole with a nice red hot iron dildo. I think that ought to improve your minuscule intellect.' -- from today's fan mail
asciilifeform: jurov: cpu, then ram, then disk (not necessarily ssd, but at least mirrored mechanical)
asciilifeform: i simply don't happen to know what it is
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: but there is almost certainly a sound physical reason, because same was true on ru side
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've always wondered why internal mechanicals (trigger mechanisms, bolt, receiver) aren't chromium plated as modern (post '44 or so) barrels are
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not based on ww2 'garand' ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as far as i understand, usg's refusal to adopt the correct solution, the gas piston, was pure nationalistic lunacy and little else
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: gas fouling << don't build rifles that 'shit where they eat' - problem solved
asciilifeform: that or 'caseless' strange (never, afaik, really perfected, despite ocean of money)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: anything that semi/auto cycles needs modern shell, to ~.1mm tolerance or so
asciilifeform: ^ works quite well against unadorned kevlar, one might add
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: may as well suggest arbalest
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some odd reason, the plumping shop 'guns' popular since '50s - didn't
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is possible, with current tech, to recycle shells in jungle conditions, but not to produce them, or primers, or bullet adequate for modern rifle
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it was clear to anyone who gives a fuck that usg would target ammunition, rather than small arms per se, when it 'gets serious'☟︎
asciilifeform: t with herbicides to get their money. Unlike soil erosion, compaction and pollution, breaches of this rule are easy to detect and enforce: if the inspectors see trees returning to the land, the subsidy can be cut off altogether.'
asciilifeform: 'There is just one set of rules that are effective and widely deployed: those that enforce the destruction of the natural world. Buried in the cross-compliance regulations is a measure called GAEC 12. This insists that, to receive their money, farmers must prevent "unwanted vegetation" from growing on their land. (The rest of us call it wildlife habitat.) Even if their land is producing nothing, they must cut, graze or spray i
asciilifeform: 'I've never sailed the Amazon, / And I've never reached Brazil; / But the Don and Magdelana, / They can go there when they will!'
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: fortunately, should you wish to see emacs, there is no need to cross the equator and make your way through the jaguars to the ocelots
asciilifeform: 'Because we have got to be willing as a nation to have a dialogue. This simplistic characterization of one-side-is-good and one-side-is-bad is a terrible place for us to be as a nation. We have got to come to grips with some really hard, fundamental questions. I’m watching risk and threat do this, while trust has done that. No matter what your view on the issue is [... snipped crapolade]'
