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mircea_popescu: im not saying it's new. im saying it is time to get home computing out of the 1950s .
mircea_popescu: imagine alf! a memory scheme which allows you to shoot at the memory units, and add more as you wish without kernel panic.
mircea_popescu: ok. so then make a sane addressing scheme, and put a controller in and that's that.
mircea_popescu: most of which don't even exist like coinmelon (refered to by mp as coinmuon bc of the sign at the doorbell) << ahahaha wut, wait, the mystery is demystified ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell brendafdez: Could summer morning here in buenos aires today << wait, you're in ba ?
mircea_popescu: we want to kill the ip-in-product thing first, then the rest is unsustainable/can't mount any resistance.
mircea_popescu: as long as the industiral output you use holds no ip, it's good.
mircea_popescu: understand : reversing the secular trend from "Factory" to "household" is worth pretty much any sacrifice.
mircea_popescu: in our case, if 1% of the sheets are printed correctly, we're golden
mircea_popescu: what i mean is : currently, the fabs regard a printer that ruins 1% of the sheets as disastrous.
mircea_popescu: jurov: if it's possible to place 4 such transistors on mm2 then z80 would fit into 20cm2 << this, basically, is my point. 20 sqcm is not really a big deal. and the number of people who might do it just to play the original Chaos on their pet rock is not negligible.
mircea_popescu: jurov: lol good discussion started from the z80. now, what if we start with piece of germanium/galena/carborundum/whatever << si carbide prolly most promising, or maybe some particular graphite formulations.
mircea_popescu: so if they sold 1mn computers and 1bn ads got replaced somehow that's worth... umm... 50 bux ?
mircea_popescu: bus driver with person that just got on, that they never met before ? fuck traffic, they're only doing 60 mph in the middle of town in a sardine box.
mircea_popescu: middle of the street ? fine. clerk and person in supermarket queue ? fine. fucking policeman will stop mid arrest and chat with the victim for half an hour.
mircea_popescu: anyway, mocsiny should move to argentina. these derps have no fucking problem striking conversations with complete strangers that take any length of time in spite of not having any content.
mircea_popescu: "Go to a gym, for example, and see how few of the dozens of men and women there are actually talking to each other." who the fuck wants to talk to some guy in a gym wtf.
mircea_popescu: "Obvious things like sports always work." fuck me sideways. i never did that yet.
mircea_popescu: "When a man sees another man he doesn’t know, there isn’t usually that studied indifference. If you look at the guy, he’ll look at you back, and it’s obvious from his body language that he knows you exist and you could talk to him if you wanted to."
mircea_popescu: hard my foot, ask the same people a useful question instead of a dumb one.
mircea_popescu: but no, why make a study that makes sense but doesn't support our chosen policy nonsense.
mircea_popescu: how about asking men and women about how many cases they themselves witnessed involving OTHER people ?
mircea_popescu: a) the difference is not even significantly above statistical noise ; b) significant fudge, such as, "women are more likely to self-flatter themselves this particular way" not accounted for in ANY manner.
mircea_popescu: -based study, which found that around 90 percent of women reported that their friendliness had been misperceived at least once in their lifetimes, on average 2.7 times in the last year, with about 70 percent of men reporting having experienced this."
mircea_popescu: "The results were overwhelming: 88 percent of women reported having experienced at least one incident in which their friendliness was misinterpreted as sexual interest by a man, and on average it had occurred about 3.5 times in the last year alone. Men also reported experiencing sexual misperception, but the rate — 70.6 percent — was far lower. These rates were pretty similar to what was found in the original, U.S.
mircea_popescu: and so is the problem of "diddling" in the general case.
mircea_popescu: i say it, you say it, five people grok it and everyone else just whooosh.
mircea_popescu: this is a very importanrt point, alf made for qntra but generally gets neglected. "diddling" is a VERY assumptive operation.
mircea_popescu: well die transistors autoplaced is prolly about on par with making yourself a 3d gun that works.
mircea_popescu: just sayin, you know ? could prolly be made in a box, if one felt like placing 100k items by hand. if he works 8 hours a day at this, it won't take 10 years.
mircea_popescu: but foir the sake of argument, made by hand from discrete semi parts.
mircea_popescu: a pdp could probably be cloned today by hand in a finite timespan, fit in box.
mircea_popescu: this is important for many reasons, it has cascade effect : shorter paths, less heat etc etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'The backplanes contain 230 cards, approximately 10,148 diodes, 1409 transistors, 5615 resistors, and 1674 capacitors. Cards only used for interconnect were not counted.' << the important point is element miniaturization then vs now. at the time, 1k transistors > 100 lbs. today, 1k tranzistors < 1oz.
mircea_popescu: the phone in toaster guy is clearly shopping on the wrong silkroad clone.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'if wish were horse' etc << if wish were whores they'd be hoarse for the horses ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: you can't draw a circuit on a sheet of copper with nonconductive glue either... << don't oppress my genius! if you CUT the copper and the substrate is Conveniently Chosen (TM) it might work!
mircea_popescu: decimation you gotta talk their language tho, which dirties the soul.
mircea_popescu: the other thing is, they give vaccines to 2 hour olds, which is also fucking dumb.
mircea_popescu: now people won't get polio vaccine because "vaccines are bad". dumb shit like that.
mircea_popescu: it's bs like zona zooster and flu "vaccine" that ruin the otherwise reasonable shit for everyone.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, measles vaccine is usually useful and effectual.
mircea_popescu: jurov: "any number of small independent problems can be solved by one complex interdependent solution" << basic retard motto. "solve everything throiug the group yo! socialism ftw!"
mircea_popescu: PeterL: and I hate the question "how much did your last job pay, and what do you expect to get paid"? << "A lot of money, and I am open for an excellent offer."