asciilifeform: chetty: hence, 'extremist' solutions, as dimensions are added to a problem (seen as a 'spherical horse' of course) are largely where the answers lie.

asciilifeform: chetty: (if you don't believe this - work it out!)

asciilifeform: chetty: n-dimensional sphere, as n increases, has increasingly greater fraction of its volume closer and closer to the surface.

asciilifeform: chetty: al schwartz had the ultimate mindfucker of an explanation:

asciilifeform: to which i answer: toilet - is good to have. kitchen sink - also good. toilet and kitchen sink hybrid - no thanks. the 'middle ground' is an idiot delusion, generally.

asciilifeform: and an advance fuckyou to anyone who might bitch, 'you whine about modeline vs. mode-line but you even want to switch to trinary computer and no existing soft.'

asciilifeform: (for the malefactors who give cause for such discussions, not the participants therein)

asciilifeform: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-03/msg01535.html << when the firing squads at last for folks such as these?

asciilifeform: other than that, it's a perfectly living book.

asciilifeform: note that classical 'k&r' variant of the language used a now-archaic function declaration style. that extant compilers have less than perfect support for.

asciilifeform: ^ censored from 'google' incidentally.

asciilifeform: k&r 1st ed. w4r3z that someone asked for >> http://read.pudn.com/downloads124/ebook/525708/C_Programming_Language.pdf

asciilifeform: kakobrekla:jurov i think ppl dislike the ongoing costs associated with an account on cbr and advertising wont fix that << aha.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: modern ru shells are, mostly, steel though.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: brass was precious, must recycle

asciilifeform: (had to be treated with care, crushed in specially designed compactor)

asciilifeform: sealed shell was, iirc, a bitch re: disposal

asciilifeform: both of the above historic examples also featured gas seal (piston pushed out bullet) and therefore silent.

asciilifeform: long, long invented.

asciilifeform: bullet << http://world.guns.ru/ammunition/russian-special-cartridges-r.html (ru incarnation) or http://topwar.ru/21240-besshumnyy-patron-hm76-ssha.html (usa)

asciilifeform also to bed

asciilifeform: tear gas was labeled under brand 'hackberry' (черёмуха)

asciilifeform: this is ordinary, brw

asciilifeform: and handcuffs sold under brands 'tenderness' (one prisoner) and 'tenderness-2' (hold five)

asciilifeform: linked article mentions a popular brand among ru police, 'argument.'

asciilifeform: small translation: 'rubber cock. lever of perestroika. anal irritator. in the 2000s - stabilizator. also 'attitude adjuster'.'

asciilifeform: decimation: the very same.

asciilifeform: http://lurkmore.to/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80

asciilifeform: kubotan << see also демократизатор ('democratizer')

asciilifeform: [insert 'tactical stick' here]

asciilifeform: professional... rings << hollywood ?

asciilifeform: clippered, sheared, ionized.

asciilifeform: ripped, roasted, zapped, amalgamated, dissolved, turned on lathe, milled off

asciilifeform: they get in the way of - work.

asciilifeform: pet doesn't either

asciilifeform does not wear rings today.

asciilifeform: no good for zombocalypsis.

asciilifeform: but - finnicky bugger, hisses, puffs, goes out in the rain

asciilifeform: also have.

asciilifeform: pull the pin, it simmers along at 200C for half hour.

asciilifeform: perhaps using the same magic found in self-heating tinned food

asciilifeform: incidentally, i've always wanted a pack of slow-burning steel-tipped 'matches' you could solder with in the field.

asciilifeform: eh how'll it stay on ifya don't weld it back in the right place, lol

asciilifeform: [insert mircea_popescu's tale about soldering with matches here]

asciilifeform: but i cannot recommend.

asciilifeform: i've no idea why anyone else bought them.

asciilifeform: ^ one of these buggers.

asciilifeform: http://webspace.webring.com/people/gl/lemagicien/elecpage/maxflash/max01.jpg

asciilifeform: well, just the cap.

asciilifeform: tried to plasma-weld it back using the flash.

asciilifeform: girl was wearing a shitmetal ring, it broke in half

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as a student, bought disposable camera (those existed) with flash, late in the night

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've a story about those things. ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: yknow, the one that strikes the 5kv or so arc so the ~300v cap can discharge through ionized xenon

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: didja keep the ignition coil in the output?

asciilifeform: what on earth does BingoBoingo want witj 90+ trash-eighties

asciilifeform: surely, just once, as a boy?

asciilifeform: you lot never did a wire wrap?

asciilifeform: c128 article << shows wire wraps as if it were exotic

asciilifeform: c64 - by the tonne.

asciilifeform: that was the first and last time i ever saw one.

asciilifeform: still don't know how it came to be there.

asciilifeform: when i came to usa, i saw a c128 in, of all places, a toy store.

asciilifeform: like starting life again.

asciilifeform: retool for lambo after trambo - not easy.

asciilifeform: live by the trabambourghini, die by the trabambourghini.

asciilifeform: c128 was arguably the beginning of the end

asciilifeform: decimation: which ipad? 1,2,3,4 ?

asciilifeform: 'hysterical raisins.'

asciilifeform: but - not compatible.

asciilifeform: a few years later, the company tried selling what was, at the time, an 'actually nice' computer - 'amiga.'

asciilifeform: 'cheap and angry.'

asciilifeform: and this was on account of genuine popularity. no one buried these by the thousand in a desert.

asciilifeform: (particular design - as in, same parts, same circuit)

asciilifeform: last i knew, commodore-64 still held the record for the greatest number of a particular design of computer ever built.

asciilifeform wonders if auschwitz or mit had more notable 'alumni'

asciilifeform: (yes, auschwitz)

asciilifeform: auschwitz to cabbie to repair money to tech ceo with a brain, one of the last.

asciilifeform: what mention of commodore corp. without old jack tramiel!

asciilifeform: cn/tw

asciilifeform: vs. the other smaller one

asciilifeform: china/communist

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: !b 4 ✂︎

asciilifeform: i would personally help.

asciilifeform: chicoms could be stamping'em out by the megatonne this friday if they wished it.

asciilifeform: (or what, light cigs with them?)

asciilifeform: run them.

asciilifeform: it's no secret what they do.

asciilifeform: but similar.

asciilifeform: (mallery. not branson)

asciilifeform: and is an nsa stooge.

asciilifeform: incidentally, my little birds whisper to me that he now owns symbolics tech. co.

asciilifeform: this was not the lethal pill, but didn't help.

asciilifeform: decimation: mallery ported it to reasonably-standard common lisps. so it did not die with symbolics corp. however, he stuck a rather asinine license on it.

asciilifeform: ^ not turd. why? didn't have to run on toy computer in paupers' bedrooms.

asciilifeform: http://www.cl-http.org:8001/cl-http/history.html

asciilifeform: since we're on the subject of www,

asciilifeform: 'yahoo' << 'houyhnhnm' just doesn't have the same ring.

asciilifeform: 'Bitcoin interests me as an obvious example of a technological jewel tossed around aimlessly by the brutal hands of cave men. I can’t help but picture a flashlight or a radio set, left behind in the wilderness by geologists, to be picked up later by some Stone Age aboriginals; to be fought over and worshiped. Until the batteries run out.' -- your truly