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mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> now, your addon, if deployed would, for the average usecase, provide an improvement of what ? 10% ? 50% ? 300% ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did not want to put a final gravestone on it.
asciilifeform: see, mircea_popescu, simply NOT USING WINBLOWZ is a guaranteed gain in ANY conveyor!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is specifically for robot arms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every unit is slightly different.
PeterL: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is going to reverse engineer an LC-MS? and what, we get better performance out of it or something?
asciilifeform: what can i say , mircea_popescu is better arsonist than i
mircea_popescu: well guaranteedly you can't make any mircea_popescu 's thus, they'd simply burn down your world.
asciilifeform: anywy this was long ago and now mircea_popescu knows some of the perspective it gave.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu has it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notably, my tecan proggy allows user to use non-branded furniture in the machine.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is NO open lab automation sys.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: story is in the logz iirc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: believe or not, when this was new, i even blew a few hundy on... google ads
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 20,000+
PeterL: as mircea_popescu always says, "don't be poor"
PeterL: <mircea_popescu> PeterL and if you tell the head manager that this is a miserable abdication from his job - which is to assure you the stuff will work no matter what, he says ? << If the equipment does not work the way it is supposed to, we speak to our contact and he fixes it, I don't see any abdication of job by manager here?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the books are the EASY PART
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:26:24; assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:20:09; mircea_popescu: you think you're running a node, because, symptomatically, in the windows definition of running code (hey, click items till it works) you are. but the sense of running code contemplated for bitcoin is negative, not positive, and you don't know how to check for that nor do you specifically care.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 21:37:58; PeterL: <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429119 << it is a complicated thing, "train an army of samurai". << try the Jedi approach, one-on-one tutelage
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i only ever worked in godforsaken usg labs.
PeterL: <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429119 << it is a complicated thing, "train an army of samurai". << try the Jedi approach, one-on-one tutelage ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: i suggest that the craft of producing mircea_popescu henceforth be referred to as momotronics. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 19:26:45; asciilifeform: rereading the thread re: the 5 necessary spare asciilifeforms leads me to ask related q, where do we get a spare mircea_popescu if our current one breaks !
asciilifeform: it took me a week of ??? and radiating high-energy frustratrons at mircea_popescu to fully grasp this point.
asciilifeform: where mircea_popescu argues that there being ~any such thing~ as a shared-by-all checkpoint is a Bad Thing
assbot: Logged on 20-02-2016 23:42:04; mircea_popescu: you don't "release" a patch.
asciilifeform: i have nfi btw why mircea_popescu sent a 0fee.
asciilifeform: there's at least two full platoons of asciilifeforms for every mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: and i'm not even a mircea_popescu !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has the canonical advice, i cannot beat it, have 1000 children, beat'em within a mm of their life, kill the dumbest 9/10th
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has several useful articles re: how various unrealities will have to collapse in order for real people to be built again
asciilifeform: i actually understand very well why mircea_popescu does not want any of this to EVER become about armies of trainable fungible folks.
asciilifeform: rereading the thread re: the 5 necessary spare asciilifeforms leads me to ask related q, where do we get a spare mircea_popescu if our current one breaks ! ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he was 'old-school' '90s games man, hand-optimized asm for consoles, 3d engines from scratch, that kinda thing.
asciilifeform: PeterL: i dun think mircea_popescu believes in spending
PeterL: did mircea_popescu mean program eulora or play eulora?
asciilifeform: l0l mircea_popescu thinks he could afford my brother , ahaha.
asciilifeform: ~ mircea_popescu's age.
asciilifeform: ty mircea_popescu . and my offer to cover it with own blood - stands.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i did not scream, we'd prolly be struggling with some 'golang' prb horror now.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: ever seen black book movie ? << Brittany Murphy is hot? ~_~
asciilifeform: and i appreciate mircea_popescu firing death rays at the enemy !
asciilifeform: i wish this were not so, but so far afaik the set of folks who understand everything from galois theory to O(..) runtimes to sdram bus timings includes 1) mircea_popescu 2) asciilifeform .
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu will ahve to write code himself.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu is entirely welcome to answer 'you SAY you could do X if you were free, but i know that you're a tard! so you could not POSSIBLY do X!11 haha' and i will be powerless to prove him wrong.
asciilifeform: thread was not answer to mircea_popescu, who i think gets it, but earlier folks.
asciilifeform: so clearly mircea_popescu is paying him too much !11
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 16:46:21; mircea_popescu: i have a lawyer whose yearly budget for family is ~8k.
danielpbarron: asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i hauled it 3km in 2014 with own hands and spent more on ~petrol~. << gas was twice as expensive then as it is now
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i hauled it 3km in 2014 with own hands and spent more on ~petrol~.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 1/2 y of FULL time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well i know what a cage is, and that i live in one.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu , who IS free man, can sit down & write mpcoin.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 15:31:37; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1428537 << there are two important questions that are readily separable, here.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 12:53:52; asciilifeform: danielpbarron: mircea_popescu ! unless i misunderstood him somehow.
asciilifeform: what did mircea_popescu expect me to suggest?
assbot: Logged on 27-02-2016 19:14:30; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the other end of pederasty
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: mircea_popescu believes (and i'm not convinced that he's wrong) that hiring people lowers them into pederasty. and he's the ~only fella with money here. so then.
asciilifeform: notice how mircea_popescu pointedly also doesn't ?
shinohai: mircea_popescu is under stress lately perhaps and needs a nice lsd trip to put things in perspective :D
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 10:43:06; mircea_popescu: in other news - it still remains likely that this summer will see a bevy of various hardforks on offer. practically speaking, trb can offer either its own candidate, which takes a lot of work, or else sit tight and we'll follow the more intelligent of the avaialble offerings, which takes less work but also implies a lot of risk - experience to date shows that there's precious little intelligence avai
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: mircea_popescu ! unless i misunderstood him somehow. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 10:49:38; mircea_popescu: so far, nsa-gavin, prb and [prolly] the miner cartel are all preparing something or the other.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 10:43:06; mircea_popescu: in other news - it still remains likely that this summer will see a bevy of various hardforks on offer. practically speaking, trb can offer either its own candidate, which takes a lot of work, or else sit tight and we'll follow the more intelligent of the avaialble offerings, which takes less work but also implies a lot of risk - experience to date shows that there's precious little intelligence avai
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 10:43:46; mircea_popescu: in any case we should prolly have a strategy discussion here. paging mod6 asciilifeform jurov trinque phf an' the other interested parties.
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 23:49:08; mircea_popescu: i suppose to be cracked the same way all of them get cracked - guy with immense downlist and very well connected gets off his lazy, stupid fiat-ass and goes through the wot selection process. then has enough spots specific and high level enough to interest the locals. seems a tall order.
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 23:44:52; mircea_popescu: just ask alf.
asciilifeform: ( mircea_popescu , who doesn't hire anyone but plumbers, does not for this purpose count )
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 23:44:28; mircea_popescu: pretty much the only way he could have made economic sense was by marketing the spare cycles of well connected people here - outside.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: my former employer :P
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: did ya spot my PM? :P
asciilifeform: and if not this, then i prolly don't even rightfully apprehend what mircea_popescu had in mind
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> look, yesterday! <
trinque: mircea_popescu: I'm not
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'iq' WORKS for identifying stupidity ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lsd is ~very~ unstable unless dry crystal kept in the dark. hence why it did not work out as chemical weapon.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bottle at room temp for few hrs != city water tower (which has cl, etc)
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 21:51:30; mircea_popescu: no, guy is just some derp trying to find a place in usg, as opposed to b-a or isis or whatever. that's all.
asciilifeform: by the same token mircea_popescu can be glad that he never got seriously into, e.g., programming
assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 13:38:44; assbot: Logged on 09-03-2016 13:33:19; *: mircea_popescu is incredibly fucking glad he never gave in to the temptation as a child, and systematically never regarded go as anything above or beyond parlor trick to entertain oneself with teh nude houri postcoitally, in spite of perhaps reasonable and well reasoned arguments to the contrary.
asciilifeform sees where mircea_popescu is going.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not really, no. turks, at least at their height, quite solidly had 'fuhrerprinzip' - all officials, incl. vizir, personal slaves of sultan.
asciilifeform: or does mircea_popescu read it to learn how to actually produce philosopher's stone.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i would defer that question to PeterL
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the root of the matter is an elementary thing. google et al are deeply disinterested in cognition etc. but are paid for specific thing - solving the problem of usg needing an automated gestapo.
assbot: Logged on 21-02-2016 21:20:12; mircea_popescu: phf my mental model is essentially "awk without regexp"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-02-2016#1412496 << might be the thread you wanted ? ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo it sorta ended a larger piece, ima trilema. << cool
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually it was in a pm convo
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo this prolly shoujld be qntra << If someone know something at all about Go, I know jack shit.
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asciilifeform: !s from:mircea_popescu point truffle
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asciilifeform: !s from:mircea_popescu dog truffle
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neato.
assbot: Logged on 03-02-2016 01:31:16; mircea_popescu: "if thge best you can come up with is otp - give me back the cpu and take this mechanical gearbox instead"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the sad part is not even the 'destruction of go' -- but the new lease on life for the vc circus
nubbins`: mircea_popescu this infatuation of yours is bordering on obsessive
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu> and more importantly, because once expressed the current situation becomes tolerable << INtolerable, obviously. and in all fields. much like a smoky kitchen wall is tolerable for just as long as you don't see any actual white stuff for contrast. but bring in a new stove, suddenly the wall needs a paintjob too.