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mircea_popescu: whereas the point i was making was kinda you know, in general.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, you're stuck in a paraeconomic crevice over there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it does, i can't see why you wouldn't have your own, terrahertz bus.
mircea_popescu: which is why "two oxen" is actually misleading. either it's one ox, or else it's an infinity of chickens. no twos here.
mircea_popescu: some things are discrete, an' being an ox is one of them things by definition.
mircea_popescu: but 31 bit doesn't work anyway. it's either 32 or 16. that's it. you don't get "closer"
mircea_popescu: what, and 31 bit registers are closer to functional than 28 bit registers ?
mircea_popescu: but, sure, every broom shoots once. if a broom shot you once, you have my deepest simpathies.
mircea_popescu: somehow having this magical problem that fits just right in this otherwise narrow space seems very improbable.
mircea_popescu: if your problem can be approached with 2014 "state of the art" killer micro, it can also be approached with killer micro that was state of the art in 2009. that's the whole argument.
mircea_popescu: not that i'm against oxen or anything. but seriously, trying to sell me on braindamaged chickens with three beaks as a sort of unavoidable oxen ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i know what you're saying, but i think it's much rarer than you make it look, a problem that doesn't take well to chickens.
mircea_popescu: and nobody seriously reviews fraud that involves public funds.
mircea_popescu: this hasn't somehow magicked away just because whoever likes to sell to the gubmint
mircea_popescu: but i recall that even before the first cray, kiler micros did better than the mainframe.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty much yeah. and then Dull Gates dragged the entire "industry" of nitwits along with him.
mircea_popescu: they came up with "smart phones" ? fuck them, i never upgraded, i still use actual phones. samsung is jumping over backwards to supply the market. they cost nothing. etc.
mircea_popescu: but that ended a few years back, and "upgrade" is headed right into the "please install our browser toolbar extension" and "act now!" bin.
mircea_popescu: people didn't use to upgrade worth a shit not even a decade ago, when all the incentives were alligned for them to.
mircea_popescu: this idea that "we'll gavin all over the blockchain technology and everyone will follow" is out of a holywood movie. not how reality works.
mircea_popescu: half a cent a pill, indian factories dedicated to its preservation in amber.
mircea_popescu: wake me up sometime when i care. i've been using sulfmetoxazole forever, and i intend to continue.
mircea_popescu: fuck, for that matter, this thing is universal. so the us only makes "high performance" bullshit antibiotics of doom these days ?
mircea_popescu: so you get twice the clock, and i get two of them. sure, there are SOME problems that are provably unsplittable.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's a fine theory an' all, but i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am at this very moment running a 64 GB amd-a8 quad.
mircea_popescu: if he doesn't do worse than you, that's a prime signal that you're insane.
mircea_popescu: seems 1905 steel girder bridges still work just fine, and yes you can do anything you want done on 486s. heck, it's always been cheaper to buy last year's tech and buy a lot of it and network it than it is to buy the monolithic "custom made" tool.
mircea_popescu: you don't HAVE TO update anything, and if it sucks you don't update.
mircea_popescu: every step of the way of technology is sound and can be rested upon.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the issue should be addressed irrespective of how obnoxious X kiddo is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends which. the oil prospectors that make money do.
mircea_popescu: if the problem exists it's a prime indicator you're wasting your life.
mircea_popescu: so... if what you do is a good idea, this sort of problem can't possibly exists.
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt they actually use poettering stuff either, but what do i know
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so basically you're running your own metal which you don't want to colo because you figure it's actually cheaper in your own house sort of thing ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said afore, " you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit"
mircea_popescu: now suppose the major cost of the icecream truck wasn't icecream, but... windshield wiper.
mircea_popescu: but both of these make sense from a business perspective.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and actually renting stuff like amzon offers is not cheaper than what you're currently doing ?!
mircea_popescu: but you see how from a business perspective this makes no sense ? the hardware's the biggest cost. in any and all dcs ever since the world begun.
mircea_popescu: there is a lot terribly wrong with the picture you paint. i've yet to see this wonder where support costs more than the hardware.
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : two $10 old cpus are faster than a $50 modern cpu.
mircea_popescu: anyway, entertain me here. so what happens if you use 2010 hardware with older linux instals is that what, your shit moves slower ?
mircea_popescu: somehow i imagine what the us agency of redhat is trying to solve is exactly your problem,
mircea_popescu: poettering should be good news for you then - soon enough you won't need an emulator at all.)
mircea_popescu: (kinda weird how the "stuck with windowsy linux" discussion denegerated into a "because i need to run windows".
mircea_popescu: i just never ran into this sort of edge myself. i guess count it as a blessing an' move on.
mircea_popescu: well this sounds like a fucking curse on the level of, "must have sex in my car trunk, no matter what"
mircea_popescu: you can't just boot up say a vm for it on a remote server ?
mircea_popescu: and you gotta run the winblows in an emulator on a physical laptop ?
mircea_popescu: something's amiss with this picture tho. i find it hard to believe that you need a lot of computing that is a) physically in your lap and b) exactly fits within the seeming arbitrary constriction of "what 2014 laptops allow"
mircea_popescu: im not sure why you want to run 2014 hw at all. but whatever, maybe i don't do enough hi res porn conversion on a laptop to care ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> on account of my profession, i occasionally do things like booting up winblows in an emulator. << actually last i did that it was on... ubuntu!
mircea_popescu: finding a fucking nat router that's not backdoored by design is a fucking hassle as it is.
mircea_popescu: it's not like simply ignoring pottering forces one to any sort of anything. so you run 2005 linux on 2010 hardware. you probably don't want the modern crapolade for any serious purpose anyway,
mircea_popescu: no but look, linux only went braindamaged this decade.
mircea_popescu: the cpu instruction set changed or something ? it's the same thing.
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm missing something here, but, why do you think you can't run "max" whatever they are on older debians ?
mircea_popescu: i can't even be bothered to count all the ways that's stupid. wtf.
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck takes any electronics from their job is so stupid shouldn't get to live anyway.