asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we already have lojban, lol
asciilifeform still suspects old sapir & whorf were on to something
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually i'd be ok with any of the popular picks
asciilifeform: let's all pick a language with declensions & learn it.
asciilifeform: apparently our grasp of physics was correct in that it is impossible to communicate across parallel universes. and reddit is such a universe...
asciilifeform: '...claimed to have definitive proof that Jon Matonis and others in the Bitcoin Foundation are corrupt...'
asciilifeform: dignork: your chipset+os does not alert on overcurrent ?
asciilifeform: for instance, i can exploitably crash winblows 7 using a gadget that only responds to legal mass storage std. commands.
asciilifeform: it is a fool's errand to save people who use defective os from themselves
asciilifeform: dignork: as i pointed out ages ago to ninjaspamgun, it is the responsibility of operating system to enumerate, e.g. only usb dildo on a given port, and not keyboard or whatnot☟︎
asciilifeform: dignork: what do you picture in a 'usb firewall' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, the fellow who was ordered to behead his best chum
asciilifeform: (an organ like any other, apparently - fails)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is how one diagnoses a clinical failure of... imagination.
asciilifeform: if you examine in detail the incel 'canon', most of the afflicted tend to believe in a quasi-mythical past, when they would have, presumably, been 'issued' something to fuck - like a soldier is issued his uniform
asciilifeform: and worked it into a mega-flamewar lasting a year.
asciilifeform: old. there were at least two poor devils in alt.support.somethingorother who did just this
asciilifeform: everyone there, as i recall, fit the overall pattern (no theorems...)
asciilifeform: if anyone remembers dan mocsny (usenet crackpot linked here a while ago) - he dwelled in newsgroups devoted to 'incel' subject.
asciilifeform: sloth << sure, so does man - for vitamin 'd'
asciilifeform: and descriptions of feasts, in myth and legend
asciilifeform: even though man does not photosynthetize, this is rather close to reality in recent past. notice how prominently delicacies figure in old fairy tales
asciilifeform: i.e., you remain hungry while solar powered
asciilifeform: assuming hunger still worked like it does in actual world
asciilifeform: gedankenexperiment. imagine if it were not possible to starve to death - folks who can't find any food would, say, photosynthetize (this is not geometrically/thermodynamically possible in life, but imagine for a moment.) what would the people who have never, or almost never, eaten - write on the subject?☟︎
asciilifeform: 'man: would you like a book? Chukcha (similar to eskimo, butt of soviet jokes) replies: 'thank you - i already own a book.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: 'incel' article: what i always found interesting is that we always hear from the fellow who has yet to 'learn a skill become good at it' and not from the one who never learned how to safely unscrew the fuse on a woman because he had theorems to prove.
asciilifeform: damnit, here i was, thinking 'nsa relationship' is now a standard thing
asciilifeform: because that line crashed my puny brain
asciilifeform: one more method. find and disassemble a computer. inside, search for an ic with quad flatpack (e.g. TQFP-44) package. lay tube sideways across (unpowered) pins, count pins. look up their pitch (typically 0.5mm).
asciilifeform: if easier to find bullet than coin, re-examine engineering priorities in project.
asciilifeform: alternatively, find... a bullet. typical tolerance of caliber is near 0.001 mm
asciilifeform: (a coin, in most countries, is good to < 1%)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: borrow a 'Pnohe' with camera. photograph end of tube with object of known size laid across diameter. count pixels...
asciilifeform: see also the tired old childrens' puzzle with barometer.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: measuring the OD of a tube << try archimedes. drown the tube, find displacement. then seal tube at one end, fill with water, find inner volume. what next - exercise for alert reader.
asciilifeform: zeroes and equates to roughly 5.8 x 1023 times the gross domestic product of the United States.'
asciilifeform: recover ten duodecillion dollars in damages (llL. at 56), which is a one followed by thirty-seven
asciilifeform: game of poker at a casino of Mr. Snowden's choosing. (Id. at 21-30.) Finally, Plaintiff seeks to
asciilifeform: Mr. Snowden is alleged to have taken against the United States and challenges Mr. Snowden to a
asciilifeform: '...Plaintiffs Proposed Complaint includes a letter directed to Edward Snowden, in which Plaintiff seeks damages for any and all actions that
