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mircea_popescu: in
the end, all
this is an exact re-do of
the "car ingnition control dun work" "hey it keeps
the methheads at bay" "aokthen"
mircea_popescu: but if your industrial base dun suck, pu pile is still
the more expensive part.
mircea_popescu: yes, all "costs", esp in
the sense
that if your industrial base sucks, you don't get one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform problem is
that
the deck is stacked so much against people. plutonium is like gold, inert chemically, very heavy, etc. it stands out in physical reality like a naked supermodel among a coder convention.
mircea_popescu: which is why modern-day banks are
typically not even safe'd.
mircea_popescu: but
the key factor
there is
that mines are not valuable.
mircea_popescu: you can't predict what i'll do, and you can't ensure against all
the
things i might do.
mircea_popescu: yes, but reality is more encompassing
than engineering. so suppose i submerge
the chest in fumaric acid and you lose.
mircea_popescu: golden
toilet aside,
the major expense is geting
the clump of plutonium
mircea_popescu: this should be fucking evident, either
they're biased or
they're not biased.
mircea_popescu: also i have nfi how
they imagine reality works, but in principle it's
true
that "the random process of nuclear decay is
the gold standard of rngs" FOR
THE REASON
that you can't use arithmetics
to distinguish one clump of radioactive substance from "another" clump.
mircea_popescu: pro
tip : you can still jumpstart cars
today as in 1916
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how
they imagine physical security is
to work in
the hands of an adversary.
mircea_popescu: it made a bird friend!
the bird would swoop in squaking, feet in front of
the dog, who'd chase it like crazy,
then once it's mommentum ran out
the bird'd wingflap
to
the closest
tree, rest a little and swoop again.
mircea_popescu: i watched yest
the greatest
thing ever. people
took dog out
to park, nice flat coated retriever. young, fulla life.
trinque: I watched it last week,
treated it like a dog, and it was fine
trinque: oh yeah, it's going mad in
the house
trinque: narcissist self-sustains;
that
thing needs pats on
the head
trinque: reminds my of my parents idiot dog
that nervously stares at you as if
to say "I am good boy???"
trinque: he's
talking about
the cuckgrin and weird goatee, I'm sure
phf: that buttery-smooth-emacs was a
torture
to read. it's like a
text equivalent of
those "heeeeeeeyyy guys it's me i'm back with yet another!! hello!!" youtube videos
mircea_popescu: ima go pour myself a
triple and write a scathing piece about fugazi and mackaye
mircea_popescu: come
to
think about it i'm getting fucking ridiculous over here, "oh, mp is against drugs and pot and doesn't watch porn and
totally straightedge".
mircea_popescu: well, i guess
the livestream of my livingroom irl should count and
that sorta
thing. but i've not been following
teh industry in just about a decade by now.
mircea_popescu: defo not prepared
to cogently argue
the whys and wherefores of software decisions over a decade old
mircea_popescu: aha. i have
tons of
these
things, not
touched for >10+ years etc
BingoBoingo: mplayer, parole,
there's a spectrum on non-VLC players
shinohai: works very nicely for streaming youtube vids without all
the ad crap
mircea_popescu: i
think i have copies of vlc
that i've been using since 2007 or so
mircea_popescu: somehow i had working copies. i guess ima have
to move
them
to new systems somehow or wtf.
mircea_popescu: also, just in case anyone had any doubts - vlc is
thoroughly broken. no historical package up
to 0.7 (ie five years ago) is capable of compiling (fails because can't find dbus >= 1.0.0 which you know, 2006)
mircea_popescu: very weird,
the list of nonsense
these people sprout. it's as if
they have 0 reflexive capacity whatsoever, how am i supposed
to distinguish google "ai" from some douche who spits out " Your style of just summarily shitting on how
the author wrote
this piece adds no value
to
the discussion." ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: why exactly is criticizing idiots "not adding
to
the conversation" ?
mircea_popescu: damn, i wish we knew
that back when phuctor story was #1 for half a day. such arguments!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but who
the fuck uses emacs nonfullscreen and why. << Me, I use it like a "sticky note" on screen.
trinque: gabriel_laddel can
tell me when I can rewrite all my elisp in CL
trinque couldn't stand writing one command "open all
the shit I use
to work on project P" in multiple languages,
the cost being stepping around various exwm bugs
mircea_popescu: (retrospectively it is evident
this proggy had a large formative impact in young alf, hence all
the vermin references.)
mircea_popescu: hey, sometimes being
the only one who uses something makes you more
than being
the only one who wrote it.
mircea_popescu: yeah well
that is not really what anyone
thinks of when
they see
the word.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-19 18:39 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've yet
to use a "non-full-screen window" for anything.
trinque: ^ neglects
to mention emacs windows
mircea_popescu: you, apparently. /me recalls
this discussion where he was using everything full screen and heathens balked.
mircea_popescu: well if
the os fucks up
the video buffers, anything will flicker.