asciilifeform if could pick dead empire to fight for, quite fond of hirohito's
asciilifeform: i suppose it began with the untimely death of their apex predator, jp
asciilifeform: i haven't the faintest idea re just how the yellow hieroglyph folx pulled it off. but apparently they did.
asciilifeform: even absent gigantic cock statue in nyc.
asciilifeform: it's already to the point where 'white devil' knows automagically where not to walk so as to not step on chinese foot, if he wants to keep both feet
asciilifeform: they junkyardwars'd together a working ottoman-style org system ought of sumthing like '80s su -- sorta like we trb from prb etc
asciilifeform: ( observe, nobody 'declared war' on chimp )
asciilifeform: they do ~whatever they like, have ~99% of modern industry inside border, and look at 'west' like we look at chimp in zoo
asciilifeform: in so far as i can tell with naked eye, 'the war' 1) already happened 2) china won 3) at ~0 cost, in the trad chinese style
asciilifeform: ( where fr got 'bistro' do you suppose. )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if history's any guide, chinese dun like white devils enuff to actually leave'em alive and use for cotton-pick. i see straight glassing as moar likely
asciilifeform: ( i think of chicago as a kind of massive open air бомжатник , from own experiences there )
asciilifeform: sorta how 'online dope market' is 100% usg.dea
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the advertised market ? not particularly surprised
asciilifeform: ( not mega-seekrit, nuffing in usgdom that sails, flies, or drives, moves so much as centimetre without steady supply of chinesium )
asciilifeform: shortest ever war, all they gotta do is stop feeding
asciilifeform: even if only 1 in 10 btc supposedly 'selling at marshals auction' factually exists, that's still ridiculously many coinz that fell into enemy hands when absolutely oughta have gone to /dev/null
asciilifeform: lol war of whom vs whom -- reich vs miamistan ?
asciilifeform: 'spread disinformation and discord to undermine our democratic institutions'
asciilifeform: 'Building upon successful hash sharing efforts to further assist in proactive removal of illicit content. ... Setting ambitious industry standards, and increasing assistance to smaller companies in developing and deploying illicit content counter-measures. Building and enhancing capabilities to counter foreign interference and disinformation. ... Artificial Intelligence-driven solutions.' << lol
asciilifeform: 'Likewise, the moment Macron finished his speech, up popped a Microsoft blog post heralding the speech as a "an important step toward peace and security in the digital world."'
asciilifeform: this of course in barrett reduction variant. ( otherwise most time spend in fz_div )
asciilifeform: ( cuz that's where most time spent when rsa )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc just comba (basecase mul) alone, if asmified, is 8x speedup , even if all else left alone
asciilifeform: and i'll add that the name 'intel format' for the SANE asm syntax, is misnomer -- i had an assembler for e.g. c64, that ate an' shat sane form, and no intel was involved in any shape
asciilifeform: ( gcc, objdump, as, etc ALL default to it, ugly as sin as pointlessly verbose )
asciilifeform: and defo belongs on the list of what the gnu people will be held to answer for
asciilifeform: imho at&t asm syntax is a fucking plague
asciilifeform: btw ave1 i'm pretty sure i recall that gnat knows how to eat godly asm syntax instead of %%%%%%%%%'gas'liquishit
asciilifeform: ( in sane langs afaik this distinction is quite clear right off the page )
asciilifeform: slightly diff item, aqueduct requires maintenance to some degree
asciilifeform: i'd naively think that the iron drill would be quite exciting find for current-day carpenter
asciilifeform: quite obvious re 'roman art', but less so re workaday obj like drill
asciilifeform: whereas 1940s vintage item still runs 100%
asciilifeform: i recall thread with BingoBoingo re old iron electric drill. i see'em at flea markets routinely, nobody buys, and then the idjits go to 'home despot' shop and load up on chinesium that breaks in half after 17 uses
asciilifeform: folx cling to the old, working gear for dear life
asciilifeform: asciilifeform worked in places where 1980s e.g. mass spectrometer, and not because no budget for 1+$mil to replace it, but because nobody wants the 'upgrade' with win vista
asciilifeform: prettu sure '90s was when you could last get one without winblowz on it, yes
asciilifeform: felt just about like you could get on the thing and fly.
asciilifeform: damn thing certainly had 'line'. like mig9.
asciilifeform: they come with pedigree papers, too, like picasso ( with the diff that typically if you buy mispedigreed picasso, you dun get jailed for 20y )
asciilifeform: rusty 'tommy', apparently also better than brand-new ???.
asciilifeform: all this in re 'crashed bmw better than new toyota' files.
asciilifeform: ( to be fair, not only zamac in this story, but peculiarity of gringostani politics where 'pre-ban' xyz is a thing )
asciilifeform: asciilifeform ~decade ago went to a traditional american festivity, gigantic flea market where small arms bought and sold in open air. found it interesting that the most valuable wares were not even antiques in the usual sense, of century+, but 1970s-80s : apparently the 'peak' of the tech, modern calibers and 0 zamac.
