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BingoBoingo: <thestringpuller> people still use okcupid now
that
tindr exists? << mp doesn't have a guide
to beating
tindr
mircea_popescu: the difference between
the placid capon and
the overactive
to mask impotence capon is not substantial.
mircea_popescu: "and what have you learned in
the city, billy bob ?" "oh ma, i have learned how
to fail before i even
try!"
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:45 asciilifeform is of
the - admittedly armchair - notion
that 'backyard artillerists' oughta focus on rockets, lower pressure, better... 'bang for buck'
mircea_popescu: hasn't changed hands yet, but arguably
the iraqis are edging into actual city.
mircea_popescu: the problem is material quality.
they'd cost ~1mn, which is not what people wanna pay for cessna.
they wanna pay 100k, and
they do.
mircea_popescu: when i first got laid i had nobody
there
to show me how it's done so i made do as best i could.
mircea_popescu: at some point oil was carried by barrel.
then by
trainload.
then piped.
mircea_popescu: that it doesn't happen all
the
time, or within a short enough interval doesn't change
the fact
that it's
the one mode of industry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose i missed all
those steam pressure gauges in cars etc.
mircea_popescu: the way it works is,
two chunks of hardware
that have
to be interfaced are briefly interfaced by biofilm, until a proper solution is put in place.
mircea_popescu: you don't handboil anymore ;
there's magnetic stirrers specifically because of
this skill being expensive. etc.
hanbot: well in
the same manner as'd be a museum of vinyl siding, sure.
scriba: Logged on 2016-11-02: [15:46:51] <mircea_popescu>
the cuban wiki entry is fucking hysterical. lengthy discussion of
the shitty jobs
the dork did in college. how come none of
these go "and
then he
took rhetorics with elena dragos and was
the only one
to get a b in any of her classes
that decade"
hanbot:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161102/#279 << incredible collection of idiot euphemisms on
that page. "provides vertically integrated production", srsly?! also, attempted
to make some preserves of it with archive.is, which is broken/dead/? atm, so here's another bitchlog on
that ongoing fire....
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform name one such basic. "don't suck
through your nose from reagent bottle" ?
thestringpuller: i'd rather attempt at raising my own shitty veal rather
than continuing
to eat mystery meat until end of lie
a111: Logged on 2014-05-29 17:55 asciilifeform: i really can't fathom
the purpose of buying a mystery meat hardware rng. if you're willing
to eat mystery meat, why not use
the vlsi
turd found in current cpu?
mircea_popescu: note
that
the place where good
training would have helped (concorde crashed into hotel ; smolensk lulz ; etc),
the
training
though present didn't do anything, and nobody
thought it proper
to blame anyone for
this.
mircea_popescu: there is a
thin sliver of stuff your
training is useful for ; but most accidents, including with planes, including with controlled flight into
terrain, come from not having read
the book.
mircea_popescu: would you want someone working on
trb on
the basis of having read
the book or on
the basis of having watched "the videos" ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:25 asciilifeform: PeterL: would you fly as passenger in a mig
that i offer you a ride in after reading 'how
to mig' b0000k by, say, mthreat ?
thestringpuller: looking
through my research
there doesn't seem
to be a conclusion
to hardware RNG
thread
mircea_popescu: i mean "the miniaturization is important in itself", ie, even if obviously won't work
to move large bodies, it's integral
to
the magical cavity.
mircea_popescu: yeah. just, you know,
the miniaturization itself is important.
PeterL: it could work with a flow cell, which would be cool for monitoring a process, but
the low resolution would make it very bad for identification work
PeterL: didn't get
to put my hands inside
PeterL: at my previous employer
there was an equipment showcase, bunch of vendors showing off new stuff, one guy brought a shoebox sized nmr, blew my mind a bit
mircea_popescu: human civilisation was built by very intelligent, special, sensitive doods DOING WHAT
THEY WERE MOTHERFUCKING
TOLD
mircea_popescu: this entire "elective" driver for human activity is
the pits.
mircea_popescu: and we'll be all "oh, good
thing you did
the rape
thing first
then mkay.
THAT was
the emergency"
mircea_popescu: it's gonna be
the "surprising nobody could have predicted what will
those zany scientist kids
think of next" of our old age.
mircea_popescu: but
this
technology is 50 years away, idiots are
too busy making "3d guns" out of
the practical equivalent of a large plastic coathanger injector and other stencils.
mircea_popescu: in ~principle~ all chemistry as practiced now could be changed
to phys-chem
through
the process of, put substance inside magical cavity, shoot
the right beams at
the right atoms.
mircea_popescu: if you're gonna do
that better off doing resonant cavity em
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 19:31 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562159 << he was born in soviet russia.
there isn't a purpose, just, electricity is all he's got besides "the power of
the soviets", and while neither can fill a hand before pissing in it would, nevertheless at least electricity DOES SOMETHING.
mircea_popescu: (in some ind processes,
the "was
there a spark" is mn dollar question post disaster)
mircea_popescu: yes but most organics are not "thermodynamically plausible"
to use your
terminology, making it misguiding. put caveat "if it's not organic, or interesting (ie explosives)"
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 19:29 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562147 << it is, or at least was,
the explanation of "how life begun". nevertheless,
this method fails amply for organic compounds : fill a
tube with a all
the organic compounds you can
think dilute in
the same solvent, run electrictity
through it, congrats you have some lightly chlorinated
toilet water.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:24 asciilifeform: and
the feedstock problem is not escapable in postindustrial world. e.g., one can make nitric acid from, say, copper sulfate, saltpetre, and water. but where in
the forest do i dig up copper sulfate ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:23 asciilifeform: how
the fuck do you write down ~hand skills~
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:21 PeterL: so we need a sort of "frozen" archive of "how
to make X, which you need
to make Y", sort of like how
trb has frozen deps
mircea_popescu: fucking savagery. and it probably started "for your own good", as
these
things always go.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:19 asciilifeform: PeterL: you would be surprised at what commonplace
thing can be abolished by great inca. i was astonished, after moving
to usa,
that you cannot buy potassium permanganate in drug store here.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:14 PeterL: what would be
the purpose of
this?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562159 << he was born in soviet russia.
there isn't a purpose, just, electricity is all he's got besides "the power of
the soviets", and while neither can fill a hand before pissing in it would, nevertheless at least electricity DOES SOMETHING.
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:11 asciilifeform: it is not an ~economical~ way
to make (almost) anything.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562147 << it is, or at least was,
the explanation of "how life begun". nevertheless,
this method fails amply for organic compounds : fill a
tube with a all
the organic compounds you can
think dilute in
the same solvent, run electrictity
through it, congrats you have some lightly chlorinated
toilet water.
☝︎☟︎