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thestringpuller: well
the morphine and cocaine markets are more of a smuggling game......
thestringpuller: well you could deal sneakers...but
the market depth isn't very large
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: should solidify
the evidence
that dope dealing is a great financier of
the cash variety
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: it's also ~when i stopped paying any attention. last
time i played games as
they came out was 1999/2000
mircea_popescu: then
those dumbasses got impregnated, and delivered, and
those dumbass offspring run shitsoup
to play unicode.
mircea_popescu: before
that, it was just
this fastidious piece of crap which dumbasses ran
to play solitaire
mircea_popescu: there's no "i have a rat infestation but my rats have only
the front paws and left ear"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right. because usg always says
the same
thing.
mircea_popescu: and
this sort of shit exists because microsoft exists.
Framedragger: (it's sorta-kinda seeing a revival, with folks doing HRTF etc on bare CPU without need for audio chip accelerated whatever, but i believe
there's still a.. niche. for someone whoever realizes
that graphics isn't everything, etc.)
Framedragger: hah
that reminds me, i'm
too young
to properly remember but after looking into
this i've concluded
that best 3d audio was in 90s (before creative labs patent-trolled aureal semiconductor). (maybe i already ranted about
this).
mircea_popescu: (lasts, not because chickens will become xilinx fans, but because
the last people who know how it works will die, and
then
their writings will... BE MOVED
TO NEW DIRECTORIES. and
that's
that.)
mircea_popescu: BAD DIRECTORY STRUCTURE. no, might and magic 6 is NOT HAPPY
to find itself in a directory including spaces, ampersands and unicode's mother on a stick.
mircea_popescu: for
the record, in my experience a good HALF of wine errors encountered in practice (man wants
to play
the games from
the
times when games were worth playing) are...
mircea_popescu: anyway, i got it flattened into shape, but because debugging
the videocard not because googling
the web.
mircea_popescu: but
this isn't my point. go ahead, search yourself, it's just a pile of
the usual chickens doing
their usual chicken crrr-crrrr-crrrrrkkkk!
mircea_popescu: and on like
that forever. i long ago despaired of
trying
to google error messages.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i ran into problem
trying
to get mm6
to run on wine ; error message search (R6034 !) yielded NOTHING USEFUL. just endless pile of imbeciles doing
the usual imbecile
thing "oh, you got
that ? so did i. i heard johnny also did or had a friend who did hey have you
tried washing hands?"
mircea_popescu: basically
tries
to figure out how links work
to fuck with it.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-12 15:13 mircea_popescu: somehow however i don't seem
to ever want
that.
mircea_popescu: inbcidentally asciilifeform as per
that discussion of how much it costs
to index etc, phuctor is a
total google poison.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the
tmsr situation is very much like, space ship landed on new planet,
there's a few people and
tech of unspeakable power, and otherwise a bunch of shamanic
tribes on
the surface. fuckable, but
that's about all,
their ooga-ooga language is fucking
tiresome.
mircea_popescu: don't start
too soon. we've not yet
the manpower or infrastructure
to do a google.
mircea_popescu: "for banal www as long as i don't look for
things anyone in
the libertard camp may object
to, conceivably"
mircea_popescu: No results found for "at any rate,
talk
to
the old
trotskyists, mats ,
they might help.". << via
the web interface
mircea_popescu: yes, i'm aware it can point me
to google's facebook.
tyvm it never seems
to be a practical need i have.
mircea_popescu: it "does" except not
this not
that and not
the other. which is
the fucking point.
mircea_popescu: !#s "at any rate,
talk
to
the old
trotskyists, mats ,
they might help."
mircea_popescu: !~google "at any rate,
talk
to
the old
trotskyists, mats ,
they might help."
mircea_popescu: it also doesn't do anything, because yes srsly, i don't need
to "google
trump"
to find
trump's facebook page.
mircea_popescu: oh, but when i want stuff from
the log i also don't google
mircea_popescu: whenever i actually want data i have
to crawl myself but people go around saying "google is
the only working search engine"
mircea_popescu: except when we wanted eg framedragger's data we had
to crawl ourselves, yes ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-12 14:58 mircea_popescu: so you know,
they're doing
their patriotic duty
to pretend so as
to create
the aggregate dogvomit upon which "nobody could have predicted" in case
there's any responsibility
to allocate later.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-11 20:45 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i could readily reduce
the svg if you wish, most of it is dreamweaver-style pointless
tagging
a111: Logged on 2016-12-12 14:24 asciilifeform: it occurs
to me
that one could write a 'garbage compactor' for
these
mircea_popescu: so you know,
they're doing
their patriotic duty
to pretend so as
to create
the aggregate dogvomit upon which "nobody could have predicted" in case
there's any responsibility
to allocate later.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in proper
terms : even
the empire figured out
the incredibly
tenuous position of google, who a) provides no useful service and b) survives exactly out of yahoo-style ponzi scheme (as described by paul graham, one of its architects pre dot com bubble)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-08 03:29 mircea_popescu: "What would Lucene at Google’s size look like? If we do a naive back of
the envelope calculation on what it would
take
to index a significant fraction of
the internet (often estimated
to be 1
trillion (T) or 10T documents), we might expect a 1T document index
to cost something like $10B1.
That’s not a feasible startup, so let’s say
that instead of
trying
to index 1T documents, we want
to maintain an artisanal search ind
mircea_popescu: some dork named danluu was raving on about how microsoft sucks because google got all
the engineers
that exist.