asciilifeform: cathenone << there is a catha edulis in the u.s. national botanical garden. i saw it many times with own eyes. but, iirc, they don't have a cannabis sativa or any other 'forbidden fruit'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as he later explains (and ask any depressive patient from usa) it was so that pharma vendors could push patented antiepileptics (and even antipsychotics) to depressives
asciilifeform: but maximally unique to a particular problem
asciilifeform: the kind of optimization i'm speaking of is not libraryizable
asciilifeform: and spend lots of quality time with your profiler
asciilifeform: if you actually need the x% gains from intel's fortran, or whatnot, you really ought to be doing hand asm optimizations of the bottleneck routines
asciilifeform: sorta like the argument that if there is already the usg-mandated maximum of xxx ppm of turd in your dinner, might as well go full-blown coprophagiac
asciilifeform: there was something like this, iirc, depicted in the film 'clouds atlas'
asciilifeform: jurov: the zip tie and the effete executioner of the future are a match made in heaven. no need to watch the victim struggle, dance. zip - next.☟︎
asciilifeform: just like 'drinking an ocean' is something we only 'want' when thirsty
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember your article on how 'oceans of pussy' is something boy only wants when he's 14 and living in a cellar ?
asciilifeform: we were tying low-voltage cabling, not necks, so nobody gave a fuck
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but they botched the molding - the ratchet doesn't hold. it's almost as if someone made the injection mold dies from... an n-th generation zip tie
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnier still. the polymer's fine (pulled it with pliers and it stood)
