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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but to somehow lay out electrical logic elements at the customary densities << you're right that it's the wrong thought, and also, "customary" - honestly even making something like a z80, as long as it can be made at home, with equipment costing about what a z80 cost, is well worth it.
mircea_popescu: no one says you need a dielectric with conductive masks, you could use a conductor with dielectric masks ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: probably needs entirely new chemistry. << graphite base ?
mircea_popescu: holy shit trilema was discussing the "hard drtives discovery" a year ago ?
mircea_popescu: "Yet another article describing what we've known for a while : secure computing is in fact rendered impossible by the hardware itself, what with DMAi, what with defective separation of controlii with CPUs embedded in all the peripherals anyway and so on and so forth."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: safe and secure in the ca government's hands. << fountains gotta fountain.
mircea_popescu: but then you gotta commit to make it a job. i think there's a pretty decent living in it, but whadda i know.
mircea_popescu: if you want, i can front you the capital to colo a few servers wherever you want, and work off that.
mircea_popescu: weren't you running an open bash server at some point ?
mircea_popescu: so it's not ACTUALLY a big deal in any sense. you're not supposed to run experiments in production.
mircea_popescu: what's left is essentially, "IP holders, and companies aspiring to be one day bought by ip holders"
mircea_popescu: considering another 2 in 5 exist on paper only, as some sort of scheme defrauding the public treasury,
mircea_popescu: "1 in 5 pieces of software in the US are unlicensed. Be part of the solution." holy shit, that bad ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not a problem of technology asa much as ideology, you realise. currently, if you ask consumer why X item exists, it's because "that's what the factory makes". "and it has to be sold^H^H^H^H marketed to me". as opposed to, you know, because this is what I WANT.
mircea_popescu: in this sense your senator's also your representative.
mircea_popescu: the traditional paradigm was artesanal - objects exists because someone willed them into existence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the industrial paradigm is not any one particular thing, but the idea that the production of material artefacts is the result of a process not of a will.
mircea_popescu: (i don't care either way, each works, but i was lulz'd at your militant stance)
mircea_popescu: <assbot> 0 results for 'resistor dac' << you know this came to 0 because you had to ruin steming ? hm ?
mircea_popescu: well here's the thing : there's no way to expunge part of it.
mircea_popescu: in any case, strategically speaking, it will be a lot easier, cheaper and blood-economical to unseat the fiat atrocity supporting the welfare state by destroying the "industrial" paradigm.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the item in question, as kako points out, is still the shit. not because it plays the ghz&poettering game.
mircea_popescu: start it from something that's derpy but works, i say, rather than something that's clever, but doesn't.
mircea_popescu: for that matter ... recall the discussions even here about the purely resisitive musicbox ?
mircea_popescu: it .. sort of... kinda plays derpy 8 bit mono something.
mircea_popescu: basically, I want to play music ? i can now get a 5 x 6 sheet of polyester, glue cds on it printed with this thing, and plug it in.
mircea_popescu: as in, build it from garbage up, exactly how the current stack was built.
mircea_popescu: you can then make an item that looks sort-of like an 1990s "art" installation, except it does logic ?
mircea_popescu: is there some way to make this actually BE junk ? like, for instance, make an item that prints logic gates on cds, old abandoned cds ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder, and bear with my layered ignorance on all matters of import, but i wonder :
mircea_popescu: ironically, it may actually have a lot in common with the cd-r burner.
mircea_popescu: basically this is quickly becoming a problem of logjammed. "we need a decent-er system design, to make oses on". "yes, for which we nbeed a new chip paradigm". "yes, which really needs better systems design for oses and such". "yes, which..."
mircea_popescu: the problem with clean is largely a matter of size. it's easier to keep a large space clean.
mircea_popescu: lobbes nah. io should stop spamming. Xuthus i don't actually code worth a shit.