asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was another, iirc, in c
asciilifeform: lottery hitler probably has not the brain mass to doctor his archive, but why leave it to fate.
asciilifeform: incidentally, it would be very spiffy if someone here (specifically) has a vintage copy of either of these on his disk, from those days, and would be willing to sign it.
asciilifeform: unless there is some unusually reliable record of the past concerning the object
asciilifeform: speaking of diamonds (specifically of the synthetic variety), one possible observation here - not concerning the idiocy of the wood thing as such - is that anyone demanding a specific 'colour' (as per the 'monolith' essay) - i.e. provenance - of object, is begging to be chumped☟︎
asciilifeform: for sheer idiocy of the expected chump
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember that ruin you showed me in Timis? asked 'what does it cost', and you said 'you can buy but city hall'll make you clean it'
asciilifeform: 'financial discipline' was the imf standard pill for all of eastern europe all through the 90s << it meant, simply, 'privatization' by usg shills.
asciilifeform: the traffic-obeying-impedence and other fluid dynamics laws has been known for ages.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: in real life, the jams begin immediately after the road is widened. because impedence mismatch, elementary. nothing to do with the population around the road, on that timescale.
asciilifeform: bigger roads.. traffic worse << impedence mismatch. see also example, 'belady's anomaly', in computing/electronics
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, in america, the flat i moved out of last may
asciilifeform: when i lived in a flat with mice, rats, i dreamed of tiny shotguns
asciilifeform: iirc the romans grew these in jars, fattened, served up
asciilifeform: imho that thread was merely an elaborate troll.
asciilifeform: a little bit of laser, yes. anyone who has so much as tried a laser cutter will recognize the result in the photo.
asciilifeform: would someone like to explain why the wood art fellow insists he does not use a laser? (he has photos of lathe, chisel, etc. but those are clearly necessary to forming the basic contours prior to lasering. so no surprise. but why does he deny the use of the laser?)
asciilifeform: btw, re: photos: typical laser cut. some even show signs of raster scan.
asciilifeform: two degrees of magnitude harder to find passible shooters << since when is cannon fodder in short supply?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the only thing one can reliably get to where i live, without a motor, is 'convenience stores' which largely sell recycled food
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: srsly, how often does one see word 'handbag' outside of spam.
asciilifeform: what's it mean to have a pet on payroll even.
asciilifeform has not checked the proof, just saw this turd
asciilifeform: seems like it purports to show that - yes
asciilifeform: seems like the question re: the linked article is, can one have the card players compute an arbitrary function (without them knowing) by having them play out a certain position
