asciilifeform: eventually, someone will make a long and flexible version of this toy
asciilifeform: anyone remember the toy where a set of small pins is mounted in a frame - press in hand, and an impression of hand protrudes from the other side of the box ?
asciilifeform: another interesting detail - in many u.s. states, it takes ages to actually evict someone.
asciilifeform: the 'starving artists', who often congregate in slums and enjoy the low cost, take to marching with protest signs.
asciilifeform: 'gentrification' is a liberast technical term for the process discussed here a while ago, where slightly better paid wage slaves concentrate in an area and bid up the cost of housing.
asciilifeform: because they are typically paid by the (usually broke) state gov.
asciilifeform: this might call for some background story for the non-u.s. folks. here, 'teacher' is an iconic 'noble' profession, in the eyes of the liberasts
asciilifeform: 'stop jack from evicting teachers' << evicting engineers, or accountants, is presumably ok
asciilifeform: (the only programming language i personally know, or so much as heard of, where the machine can recover intelligently from any error condition short of smoking)
asciilifeform: me, i'm still waiting for the 'let's crib features' folks to crib common lisp's intelligent error handling.
asciilifeform: the blind 'neophilia' of programmers is their undoing.
asciilifeform: , and could not fathom how to modify its tools without making a whole new language. They never stopped to think about how horribly wasteful this is, they just went on to create yet another language called Dodo, the Titanic, Edsel, Kyoto-agreement..."'
asciilifeform: 'A "new" language that differs from the rest of the crop by one or a couple features is proof positive that both what it came from and what it has become are mutations about to die. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of such "languages" that people have invented over the yeare, for all sorts of weird purposes where they just could not use whatever language they were already using, could not extend it
asciilifeform: i still can't figure out why google had to reimplement 'D'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: conformal co. - the reimplement bitcoind folks?
asciilifeform: in other news, sergey nepobedimy ('invincible', his real name,) creator of 'igla' and 'strela' rockets, has died.
asciilifeform: since my original paste on how robwhiz22 tried to persuade me to include heartbleed in cardano has been censored (!), here's a new one, of same: http://pastebin.com/yvhVVs7C
asciilifeform: where i live, sprint co. used to sell 'unlimited' modems, but go and try to actually use. speeds analogous to traditional landline modems, in practice.
asciilifeform: <robwhiz22> I don't need to know the details.
asciilifeform: robwhiz22> (And won't be asking for some.) I mean, I see that you are concerned whether the chips that you have selected can really be trusted not to be reflashable over USB. This will be addressed briefly in the shorter documen.t
asciilifeform: <robwhiz22> I didn't ask you for any details.
asciilifeform: robwhiz22: the beauty of it all is that you - and chinese ipNohe makers - any anybody - can take the design and build whatever they want. and buyers can freely choose between cardano and turdano.
asciilifeform: now we've stepped up the game to straight lying
