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mircea_popescu: alliloisi fucking menontes,
there's passive strength in
the formation.
mircea_popescu: or in
the original greek, ὦ νέοι, ~ἀλλὰ μάχεσθε~ παρ’ ἀλλήλοισι μένοντες,
a111: Logged on 2015-07-05 23:53 asciilifeform: or
that other
thread, which i can't seem
to find, where we spoke of how 'maths wot is not essential for being published, but for even having publishable ideas instead of burning your life on fibonacci sequences or some other solved/irrelevant dead end'
mircea_popescu: and so never actually got
this passive "common
trunk" "common sense" sort of knowledge about
their chosen profession.
mircea_popescu: but
they...
they went
to utah or w/e
the fuck, and so never actually went
to school,
mircea_popescu: which illustrates
the fundamental problem with "self
taught" or otherwise ignorant practitioners - every single fucking kid with an undegraduate degree from ro would have
told
the idiots
that "oh, calorimetry ? and you got an outlier ? lolzk."
mircea_popescu: incidentally in physics calorimetry experiments are notorious for
this "one crazy datapoint" presentation of experimental data ; so much so
that ro unis
taught defensive experimental physics skills on calorimetry.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-04 06:08 mircea_popescu:
the odd
truth is
that electric engines are much better at small and high loads.
the combustion engine has it's niche, but it's strictly car sized.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha, linked for historical lulz. nice description of how
that went.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-04 05:39 mircea_popescu:
http://www.niquette.com/books/sophmag/bourke.htm << for
the engine-vs-thermodynamics afficionados. you surely heard of
the famous bourke engine (2
two-stokes placed in a cross, with a double scottish yoke driving
the shaft).
a111: Logged on 2016-12-04 11:46 jurov: ben_vulpes what is
that? You were dumping /dev/random for 48 days straight and got only 8MB data?
mircea_popescu: yes but
the laws of
the universe guarantee
this can not be done well.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, some sort of resonator "drill" bit for cpus would be good
to have
mircea_popescu would pay for an apu2 board
to be destroyed if anyone wants
to drill
the fritz and report what happens.
walter: thanks for explainig. So it's even worse
than I
thought.
mircea_popescu: none of
the
three items are functional for
the stated reasons.
mircea_popescu: walter
the scheme here proposed is
that a project (linuxbios) which was useful on account of actually having drivers for extant hardware was killed by hardware maker conspiracy. on its now useless ruins, as it's dead, an idiot with a "sexual identity" political agenda
tried
to build a grassroot activism
thing called libreboot ; and some unrelated packrats with a penchant for software
try
to build a cluttered warehouse called
a111: Logged on 2016-12-05 12:52 mircea_popescu: in other news/lulz,
http://www.lincolnks.org/Housing.html << apparently a lot of places in kansas and around kansas
that have
this free housing plots giveaway
thing
mircea_popescu: also could we use gz like sane people and wtf is
this rar bs.
walter: btw
thanks for
the ami.rar.
The hash matches, although it hangs my unpacker. Looking.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am pretty sure
that
the one actually had cache and
the other had more
than a dozen items last i looked. but
that was a while ago.
mircea_popescu: meh.
this whole
thing looks like it was gutted meanwhile.
phf: which happened when people born close or on 1990 became sufficiently aware
to start wrecking havoc around 2015 or so, outside of
their 2005 ghettos (like myspace, etc.)
phf: was also sort of a lul after adjustment and recovery from
the eternal september, i.e. aol of '96 and yahoo of '99. i
think we are now in
the aftermath of
the second wave of
the eternal september
a111: Logged on 2016-12-05 13:54 walter__: phf, what's special about 2005
ThinkPads?
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-05#1577731 << also 2005 (if you search
the logs knowing what you're looking for) is a stand in for "decade of
tail end of somewhat sane computing". linux on desktop hasn't wrecked
the ecosystem yet, apple is selling unix boxes (and not phones), ibm is selling professional laptops, no reddit, no smartphone culture, no facebook, etc.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're
telling me ? i was in
the phuctor
team
that found weak ssh keys back in my youth!
mircea_popescu: though with
the whole "transsexual" derpage, i dunno how much anyone cares.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-05 14:24 mircea_popescu: also in which vein, see
the discussion re busybox and
the complete
trb machine
tmsr created for deployment on pogos (and
the whole discussion with pogos) ; also perhaps of interest
the failure
to create a useful gentoo and so forth.
walter: if
the source was distributed
to various manufacturers
then
there are so many possible leak channels
mircea_popescu: anyway ; what i linked above is a period scrape of
the original website (the way
this leak worked was
the whole pile was found on a poorly secured
taiwan server of jetway) ;
the mmnt.net site generally has all sorts of useful
things.
walter: I mean
the leaked bios source
a111: Logged on 2016-12-05 13:54 walter__: phf, what's special about 2005
ThinkPads?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you care hurley removed
that cca 2015.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at first it looked like possibly a stack smash somewhere in
there.