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mircea_popescu: she could be an anais nin of photography and he could be an henry miller of poetry
mircea_popescu: they prolly come in discount packages with leika film cams
mircea_popescu: (significantly harder, ofcourse, but at the time most everyone was used to manual typewriters, which is maybe 10x the force anyone born after 1980 types with)
mircea_popescu: but the tim-s was decent, about on par with today's no name chinese kbd
mircea_popescu: the hc had a very retarded arrangement, where the straight rather than /-\ shaped keys caught, and so on.
mircea_popescu: they briefly used a "sealed flexible plastic sensor" bs, but got out of it within a year or so
mircea_popescu: the tim-s had a decent, steel spring actioned keyboard
mircea_popescu: well minus the monitor and deck tape, which are random items
mircea_popescu: what was the name of that derpy french knownothing the english world went all gaga over earlier this year ?
mircea_popescu: anything but that. the chinese paid with slaves later on, and it took.
mircea_popescu: in any shape or form the deal would have been a tech transfer, not an item sale.
mircea_popescu: because idiot's main concern is whether this makes the other guy better than him
mircea_popescu: the reason "export controls" work is that idiots perceive themselves as ~equal to everyone else.
mircea_popescu: what, you think women pop out smart people now or something ? what is this, the spherical future ?
mircea_popescu: dude, i had to be the first one to show the concept of a map to random cairo cab driver.
mircea_popescu: if his desperation of the world meant what it usually means, he'd be long gone.
mircea_popescu: if he were not desperate ~of the world~ he would be pursuing a career.
mircea_popescu: it is meaningless to speak of a revolutionary's desperation.
mircea_popescu: recall the case of the british terrorist who used caesar cypher because "excel smarter than anything the gyauri could have invented" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently the prophet is said to have forbidden, by some twerps
mircea_popescu: just, one admits to himself he's filth, the other does not.
mircea_popescu: and yes hearn is a better political animal than gavin, but not more intelligent
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ayup, they are very singlemindedly following their talking pointsa.
mircea_popescu: minigame will always release a "reference client", but i'd frankly love for people to make their own.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fwiw, the thinking minigame side is that if there's three or four independently maintained clients which each does its own thing that's perfect.
mircea_popescu: who, notably, do not use money either. or yachts. etc.
mircea_popescu: people who use money are fundamentally different than the sort of bovines sturggling with us college education.
mircea_popescu: "anyone" is a particularly inept model. it presumes the world composed of imbecile 20somethings like one finds on reddit.
mircea_popescu: it is, after all, a consensus mechanism, not a fucking science journal.
mircea_popescu: seeing how what version you run is a political choice more than a technological one, accepting dissent is -ev for your own affairs.
mircea_popescu: i see no problem with simply nullrouting all "xt nodes", and for that matter the general practice is to block any node that advertises a version different from your own.
mircea_popescu: shinohai nothing prevents you from ignoring any node. this is how people deal with hooligans, it's been a thing since forever.
mircea_popescu: and yes prolly the shader's involved because clipping and flicking
mircea_popescu: i just said it happened on ubuntu to dispel the theory it'd be windows specific, it's not
mircea_popescu: so far i'm waiting for someone with experience to go "oh! well of course!"
mircea_popescu: IdiotCamelCaseFunctionOfDoomNotImplementedRevertsToSoftwareEmulation
mircea_popescu: stirctly, strictly that. i don't aim to run a university, i aim to run a decimation service.
mircea_popescu: that's all i care to know : what portion of the spec is not implemented correctly.
mircea_popescu: but next s.mg report is going to contain list of functional gpus.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i was looking for a why more in the form of IdiotCamelCaseFunctionOfDoomNotImplementedRevertsToSoftwareEmulation
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