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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they tested random units came out the right value ?
mircea_popescu: when they're done doing that they can probably get back to riding their wooden horses or w/e nine year olds do when not monkeying the adults.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller this isn't "permissionless innovation", this is "standardization without permission".
mircea_popescu: this is obviously a plain requisite for any government-proof system of anything.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, "bbs where every user runs his own nntp server" is a) a better implementation of irc, which is a better implementation of bbs, which is dead tech and b) exactly where gossipd is going.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda incredible to me that the entire intellectual production of the usg crowd is limited to merely rehashing points debunked within a week or two of the "controversy".
mircea_popescu: it's like boring boring b-a boring b-a b-a boring etc.
mircea_popescu: hahaha it was just pointed out to me that if you google for pretty much anything to do with btc b-a is probably in the results, and if you click over to images there's definitely some b-a ladies in there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait, isn't that HOW you measure resistence in the first place ?
mircea_popescu takes advantage of b-a to refresh his electronics knowledge :D
mircea_popescu: is there some way to connect a resistor in an unpowered, unshorted circuit so that i can't measure it without unmounting it ?
mircea_popescu: yes hon, but you didn't get 207.5 parts for a 210 part
mircea_popescu: can be done easy enough and undestructively, just turn the machine off and pop its cover
mircea_popescu: well, one way to find out, of course, would be to get some new laptops/handhelds and measure their resistors.
mircea_popescu: there's a definite age gap. kids born pre 1990 are more different from kids born after than slave owners from slaves in the deep south cca 1790
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the ham radio folks use older gear maybe ?
mircea_popescu: out of the millions of redditards generously employed to do tech support, millions are in "tech support stories" talking about how idiot customers are
mircea_popescu: (mystically breaks, sent for repairs, returns fixed, breaks again, etc)
mircea_popescu: well, not regardless of what animal, but unless someone shoots a unicorn it will not be unicorn meat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if that's where it's at, danielpbarron has a point. gotta get it running, somehow.
mircea_popescu: so then it's more like, "can't get an os for pogo, we like to believe it can be done nevertheless" ?
mircea_popescu: so the breakdown is that you know how and he doesn't an' you're not telling him ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what's the situation here, can't get an os for pogo ?
mircea_popescu: on the positive side however : this is the closest you can get to china commercially without getting close to them in a political sense.
mircea_popescu: if china (and to some degree russia an' italy) stop propping them, argentina goes to meet cuba on its way to chad.
mircea_popescu: they don't have a drydock. or a car factory. or a truck factory. or a plane factory.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile romania is exporting nuclear technology, weaponry, high tech mechanics etc.
mircea_popescu: they used to export carne vacuna, but then failed to meet their quotas and lost the contracts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand. argentina is trying to support a romania-level living standard on the basis of... soy exports.
mircea_popescu: Fartse - The World's Premiere Gravity Well Degravitizer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, is the article of faith that jesus is coming on a great atomic dirigible from the sky to take us to the other planet and smite the unbelievers ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform writing a book of actual economy in moscow 1960 was equally titanical and demoralizing. or to get back to earth : a book on actual psychopathology in leningrad, bout same time.
mircea_popescu: he was actually, in comparative terms, more of a noted expert in the field of safe cracking than in the field of physics
mircea_popescu: for that matter, not that many economists in soviet russia.
mircea_popescu: now /that/ is very dark ages. not that many practical moralists in 1200
mircea_popescu: hegel was the same way, in the cluj universitarian library. supposedly the european expert in hegel resided there.
mircea_popescu: they're, contrary to what the "consumers have come to expect" like to pretend, very easy to find
mircea_popescu: i generally manage to identify the actual experts in fields.
mircea_popescu: so he did. i recall reading it and not understanding what he meant at the time
mircea_popescu: in the manner people write fucking books. or at least did, before the great usian likbez pogrom
mircea_popescu: really, find me a piece of code written with a clear contrite consideration of "people will read this tomorrow"
mircea_popescu: this is no argument in this discussion, tho. historically there has been great profit in all sorts of dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: i don't code. principally because i can't be arsed to do a good job of it.
mircea_popescu: the idea that you ~must~ code, whether it works or not, no matter what, is scandalous.
mircea_popescu: this is like "originbally, the bridge standing at all was impressive"
mircea_popescu: the casual perusal of openssl that earlier article triggered has crystallized this point in my head.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there's many fields outside of perhaps psychology where "practitioners" have for so long acted with such intense disregard for posterity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, just to add : the people who have come before us have embedded into the very history of computing such burning, enraged contempt for us, that really damnatio is too good a fate.