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mircea_popescu: maybe 15yo me speaking through my voice. but what i recall was "o noes, memory mapping"
mircea_popescu: jesus they had some incredible "mystery code" back then, cuz you never really knew what's being addressed how.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this the real that was address-ambiguous, which is how 286 "protected" mode came about ?
mircea_popescu: so you could read a portion in front from two diff places
mircea_popescu: wait, is this the thing which ambiguously allocated a part of the pages
mircea_popescu: "real mode", in the following sense : just like you have ints and floats, ie, reals, ie, two ints bundled together one playing mantissa
mircea_popescu: people easily forget that the "two byte year" comes from a time when they also had a 20 byte bus
mircea_popescu: anwyay, you could rewrite your io.sys. this was trivial enough to do that brigther highschoolers did it to prank each other.
mircea_popescu: anyway, msdos as an os was not horrible. it wasn't great or w/e, arbitrary standards, but better oses are not actually common today.
mircea_popescu: the entire memory hole thing. bypass still present in bioses as late as the 2005s
mircea_popescu: yes. now there;s all this demonic elaborate suckage from hell.
mircea_popescu: anyway point being it's the level 0 of suck, ie, a honest, basic suckage.
mircea_popescu: i made it myself, and i dare say im fucking proud of it like it were a work of art, that list.
mircea_popescu: in other news : the eulora tier 0 items recipes etc are finally finished as a bulk. on next update, game will get the ~100 or so maze of resources, armors, hats, what have you.
mircea_popescu: that's a splendid way to put it lol, "which half do you even say hello to"
mircea_popescu: cazalla: Belxjander: added this channel to my bouncer <<< i remember doing this, thinking to myself.. which bitcoin channels represent me as a person <<< o.O
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: anyone who creates a gizmo which depends on shitstemd - has asked to share the fate. << the practical problem with this is that bayesian filtering only works for as long as it stays small.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: author - straight to biodiesel. co-miserators - straight to biodiesel. <<< there's lizzard hitler, and then there'
mircea_popescu: i managed to fucking troll myself with my own trolling title choosing process
mircea_popescu: mebbe ? the onle where the entire cycle of kid sees spam -> kid imagines this works because it exists -> kid tries it for a while, thus perpetuating it -> kid fails to make any money goves up -> new kid
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you happen to recall that trilema article where i went in depth into the economics of spamming ?
mircea_popescu: ever more vigurously than befoar, pls to report if connectivity problemz.
mircea_popescu: so, it'd seem the various issues some people were experiencing were in fact due to upstream filtering due to an unfortunate interaction of various rules. should be fixed now, so,
mircea_popescu: and then they bitch when people want to do them violence. they should be fucking thankful, a good whipping'd benefit em immensely.
mircea_popescu: on linux ffs. and then "So what ideas made "linux" and "unix" "worth using""
mircea_popescu: look at the sort of idiotic windows nt topics we're discussing.
mircea_popescu: the other even more ridiculous thing is, infantile minds going LALALALA I CANT HEAR YOU WHY CANT YOU GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER THAT IS WHAT I WANT YOU TO SAY!!1
mircea_popescu: gvfs depedning on netbase is perhaps the biggest example. who the fuck ever heard of this.
mircea_popescu: what they should do would be to remove like 90% of the current dependencies.
mircea_popescu: more dependencies than needed anyway. creatinbg even more fucking bloat is the wrong way.
mircea_popescu: " All I can say is that there is stable LTE service between Texas and Colorado that work at speed in excess of eighty-eight miles per hour and that one can do a lot with a macbook charger, a working alternator, a bit of cabling and entry-level electrical engineering knowledge."
mircea_popescu: it's roughly like a stolid square from the 60s calling his woody a "party van".
mircea_popescu: he has exactly nothing to do with "tea party", this is beyond hot topicizing the issue.
mircea_popescu: no need for all the shit it bundles to be actually bundled.
mircea_popescu: basically, gut it, use the remaining shell as a systemd-standardized interface for sane components.
mircea_popescu: one question left hanging in my head : once all the effort trying to push systemd is spent, why not just make a clone that's been shot in the head. specifically, that runs as an instance even if the root doesn't have it, and that masquerades as systemd to satisfy fake dependencies.
mircea_popescu: i mean pretty much all good games are his. from king's bounty to homm etc.
mircea_popescu: hey, giving ron gilbert money is a lot more merituous than whatever, giving buterin awards.