asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: cash ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: absentee landlord on opposite coast

asciilifeform: dulap!!

asciilifeform: unless i grossly misunderstand, it's not a 'us vs arabs' match, but a 'small faction of uppity orcs vs whole bunch of other folks incl. most of the neighbouring orcs' match.

asciilifeform: iirc there's some disagreement among the arabs at large

asciilifeform: arabs or 'isis'

asciilifeform: and good soviet support

asciilifeform not specialist, but remembers that vietnam had, e.g., leaf cover

asciilifeform: green with infinite air support ?

asciilifeform: because orcs

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: theory goes that no well-fed u.s. 400k-usd/yr academi demolitions expert or whatnot has the slightest desire to be king of the orcs

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: simpler than that.

asciilifeform: or pawn-btc-for-usd ?

asciilifeform: pawn-for-btc ?

asciilifeform: (seacord)

asciilifeform: mats: i have that book

asciilifeform: as a mega-apocalyptic culmination of usg military wankery

asciilifeform: in j. sladek's 'tik tok', sf novel in '83, in the 'dark future' (tm) an aircraft-carrier-with-wheels, vast and infinitely expensive, is finally built ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: 15

asciilifeform: 1 down, ? to go

asciilifeform: how many nuke subs left in usa? and how many janitors who haven't torched theirs yet

asciilifeform: '30s

asciilifeform: they launched biplanes and even triplanes from subs

asciilifeform: a bit hard to take off a jet from sub

asciilifeform: wake me up when ru has not-running-winblows superiority

asciilifeform: against defenseless folks, sniper has as many shots as are in his horn

asciilifeform: london sucked in 1700

asciilifeform: it's just for usaf to land & refuel on

asciilifeform: 'airstrip one'

asciilifeform: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/media/11426319/Times-publisher-News-UK-launches-internal-investigation-after-suicides-of-two-members-of-its-commercial-staff.html << from the tales of the nailgun squadron

asciilifeform: there we go

asciilifeform: ding ding ding

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: you're very nearly at the part that catastrophically fails

asciilifeform: by a very long shot

asciilifeform: possibly his best known work.

asciilifeform: (whozzat? see log.)

asciilifeform: anyway 'methods of rationality' is by a fella called yudkowsky

asciilifeform: based very loosely

asciilifeform: (which i also never got around to reading)

asciilifeform: on the original

asciilifeform: it's a riff

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform has him mentally -10 wot for many, many years now

asciilifeform: we did discuss the author on at least one occasion

asciilifeform was waiting for that thing to pop up here

asciilifeform: userland - easy

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: build << of what ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=10-02-2015#1015352 ☝︎

asciilifeform: and the method described in available literature doesn't work

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: there is no built-in means of making small ramdisks

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: it isn't one of the steps at all

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: but kernel doesn't

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: the tools (gcc and binutils) take a while

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform looks up what k. was again

asciilifeform: pr0n star ?

asciilifeform: or is that grease

asciilifeform: plastic woman ?

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform guesses where

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gotta appreciate that this is about as real to me as a $500M synchrophasotron. i.e., i get the basic principle involved, but have never seen with own eyes nor know in person anyone who has

asciilifeform does not live on that planet, has never visited, but believes the story

asciilifeform: aha so 10k industrial.

asciilifeform: spectrometer ?

asciilifeform: 10k << lol! on what?!

asciilifeform: not even 400

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but i'm not paying 4+k for 1...

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: you may be interested in learning that i've a bit of time just now and am experimenting with a port of linux nand driver for marvell to netbsd

asciilifeform: slave gurlz suffer from inverse economy of scale ?

asciilifeform does a bit of mental arithmetic

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or do your pets get sent out to work day jobs

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you feed'em dontcha

asciilifeform: (obligatory naggum: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3217750625724755@naggum.net.html )

asciilifeform dares to make the observation that more competent folks would turn out for these jobs if there was a possibility they might be able to live off such

asciilifeform: but the notion of releasing such a thing now, is a laugh.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know why it's there

asciilifeform again states for the record that the notion of running a proggy with unbounded memory consumption is a laugh

asciilifeform still waking up...

asciilifeform: nm

asciilifeform: pogo was not.

asciilifeform: thinking of other box

asciilifeform: ah wait

asciilifeform: so was i

asciilifeform: mine took <2wks on same

asciilifeform: wai wat

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-03-2014#547018 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-03-2014#547019 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-03-2014#547020 ☝︎☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: related: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-03-2014#547017 ☝︎

asciilifeform: or which is it

asciilifeform: or simply doesn't feel like making his humiliation public

asciilifeform: so, what, are we to believe he was 'national security' gagged ?

asciilifeform: (or doesn't)

asciilifeform: the court order presumably exists somewhere

asciilifeform: at any rate, the scandal described in the link is fantastic enough that one ought to ask for some public record suggesting it actually happened

asciilifeform: rupture.