asciilifeform found out that the needle fitting on his apparatus is called a 'luer lock' and can be had commercially. one fewer item to grind on lathe, and we get out from 19th c. sooner.
asciilifeform: i always imagine it is made quite like the meat pies in 'sweeney todd.'
asciilifeform: how did people imagine the dish were made - a chicken sentenced to death by 'ling-chi' ?
asciilifeform: other than this - what was peculiar about the picture?
asciilifeform: and not for actual hardware synthesis
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you're reading about verilog or similar, it helps to remember that a good portion of the language is only used during simulation experiments
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it tests electrical (vs. logical) equality
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu - if i recall you were once friends with xapo owner - ever asked him 'wtf' ?
asciilifeform: 'the actors had signed contracts with him and the producers ensuring that they would not appear in any type of media, motion pictures, or commercials for one year after the film's release in order to promote the idea that the film was truly the recovered footage of missing documentarians. Thus, when Deodato claimed that he had not killed the group, questions arose as to why the actors were in no other media if t
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what italian film was it, where the director was charged with murder on account of a 'too realistic' stake scene? and had to bring in the still-alive actress, and demonstrate the magic trick - which involved a bike seat /
asciilifeform: 'A Chukcha applies for membership in the Union of Soviet Writers. He is asked what literature he is familiar with. "Have you read Pushkin?" "No." "Have you read Dostoevsky?" "No." "Can you read at all?" The Chukcha, offended, replies, "Chukcha not reader, Chukcha writer!"'☟︎
asciilifeform: '(S//REL) Covertly, IC agencies form front corporations to participate directly in the market and emplace spyware that detects speculative trading—a leading indicator of systemic risk in this market. The findings help the United States build international support for stronger oversight.'
asciilifeform: r when we talk with customers and I squirm when I see their confusion...'
asciilifeform: 'Dear Zelda, Hardly a day passes in which I don't receive an email, usually one that's widely distributed and from a more senior member of our community, using the pronoun 'myself' incorrectly. It's my own pet peeve, but I imagine our 5-Eyes partners questioning our reliability when they see our seniors making this basic mistake. Furthermore, my boss regularly misuses a relatively common word. It hangs in the ai
asciilifeform: lol it definitely isn't kept in there. unless fits in a closet.
asciilifeform: 'NSA's multicultural workforce can be challenging for a supervisor, with separate rules for dealing with military, civilian, and contractor employees. As the Agency has moved to a 50-50 military/civilian mix, this challenge has only grown...'
asciilifeform: 'Dear Zelda, (U) I'm new to the agency and I'm also a young employee (in my late 20s). I have noticed that the older managers/supervisors think that we don't have the skills/knowledge/potential to run this agency in the near future. I heard them saying that. They tend to stereotype/discriminate without knowing our intelligence and fresh knowledge. What can we do to make them think differently? Thanks, Younger Sk
asciilifeform: u.s. presidential car is an infamous laughing-stock - broke down recently in england (?) and they had one hell of a time finding a shop that would attempt repair
asciilifeform: american 'golden toilets' tend to fall into rust if you forget them in a closet for a year.
asciilifeform: people like to laugh at 'golden toilet' - but the latter is potentially heirloom item, will show no detectable wear for a thousand years
asciilifeform: don't forget the machines and their vendors. various parts with high-threes or low-fours 'MTBF', periodic mandatory maintenance, etc. - churn inventory.
asciilifeform: this kind of thing can be relied on to carry on - until can't
asciilifeform: one ought to be surprised they don't burn the airplane on the public square every time.
asciilifeform: the other pertinent 'psychiatric' observation here is that the waste decried in the airplane piece is - mandatory. consider - in savage tribe where, e.g, hats are worm, chieftain might have longest hat. or he might get the choicest slice of long pig, whichever. in 'consumption' tribe - modern usa - what badge of rank for royalty?
asciilifeform: city police, for the duration, becomes their private army, etc.
asciilifeform: these folks actually picture themselves as 'chinese emperors', with 'forbidden city' conjured up anywhere they like.
asciilifeform: re: story with airplanes: i once saw something quite like this in life. was in wash., d.c., and an entire sixteen or so blocks were barricaded off, no one knew why. some days later, newspapers triumphantly described dick cheney's dinner at a certain restaurant in middle of said place.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this is not just about depriving you of knobs to turn. the hearniators must clear some ground to emplace their hearnias - this requires demolishing some very well understood, traditional widget, so that it -must be replaced, dontcha know, it's obsolete-.
asciilifeform: what's inherently slow about init.d ?
asciilifeform: there is a concerted effort to replace certain things with... various other things.
asciilifeform: this is about microshit and usg (but i repeat myself) finally making some headway in dealing with the 'final solution' to the escapees from wintel 'problem.'
asciilifeform: this isn't about the aesthetics, either.
asciilifeform: all those things that confounded the novice, like the piles of hay confounded buridan's donkey - aren't 'choices' at all, after all.
