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mircea_popescu: "Recently, I devoted several sleepless nights to this problem. Why is it that our computers are getting faster and faster yet we are using them more and more to render things generated on some distant server? And it’s still slow!" <<< average bovine is comforted by the second delay.
mircea_popescu: part of the reason perhaps being that if i had, i'd start bludgeoning the machine into the ground.
mircea_popescu: "it is not rare to see a palpable (and all the more so for its unpredictability) delay between pressing a key and the drawing of a symbol on the screen." << i have never seen this.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually, they didn't come up with duralumin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the mediteranean people volcanoes prolly more than meteorites.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in romanian it's how you say "base metal" generally.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it : the original siege cannon was carried by two dozen oxen, fired twice a day, had to be cooled with hlf a ton of oil and exploded every two weeks killing everyone around
mircea_popescu: was some sort of columbus of metallurgy. little is known.
mircea_popescu: the most recent pulse went in all directions, just about to india.
mircea_popescu: decimation the golden crescent is this pulsing heart of human civilisaiton.
mircea_popescu: so much so they got dragged all over to europe by various turkic people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairnes, the gypsies did show real talent in working with zamak,
mircea_popescu: anyway, tardpedia's fascination with the east and white-hating notwithstanding, steel is a western invention.
mircea_popescu: swords are like computers - they only work for some grades of si
mircea_popescu: "the iron! my god, the iron!" spoken in italia by the degenerate successors of the latins.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Shhhhh, you are about to spoil the part where the hittites surprise pete_d with iron weapns << the hittites never had iron. you're thinking the franks.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the kid who gets his first fuck - also disappointed << rly ?!
mircea_popescu: decimation: as I recall it cost around $2k in the late 80's << ahh, the days when a shitty mouse was 100 bux.
mircea_popescu: at some point you gotta put an engine in there somewhere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just like cars are a steel banded joining of the walking of people ?
mircea_popescu: decimation: C is more-or-less a fancy set of macros around assembly <<< this is actually pretty much it.
mircea_popescu: all these fucktards with the "blockchain technology" have no fucking idea even what the technology actually is
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform opens koraktor, bound in human skin, and searches for a death spell for google << wot based search. working towards it.
mircea_popescu: maybe our fucking should be all machi^H^H^H^H^H woman independent also ?
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would "we". jesus burn every text with we in it already.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> under rusty old msdos one can, generally, actually program in c << because, again, if i want to kil a ms-dos dependency I DELETE THE FILE
mircea_popescu: decimation you don't understand. for him, matter of life and death. that's how he eats.
mircea_popescu: well, i just sent you one, should be a tab opened somewhere next to where it says #bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: arguably c doesn't do much to help the programmer not be stupid. then again, it doesn't actually force them to be dumb. sort of like asm, and nobody really hates asm.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal people generally hate c++ for reasons and c by extension.
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> So I'm reading this conversation about programming languages from 7 days ago (28-10-2014). There is a lot of trash talking about OOPs, like C++. I don't see anyone mention C. Is C just not worth mentioning? <<< c is really not ~that~ bad.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> The contemporary idea of the incredibly PC media mafia after the bush election exists as a creature of Nick Denton's creation << hm. sort of like anti-drudge ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, gawker, nov 4th. "But it's hard to tell if anyone is even real anymore." mp, sep 13th "I want the average redditor to understand that when he interacts with a screen name, he is not interracting with a person."
mircea_popescu: "Teen Twitter (the most powerful force in the universe)" << really ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> if i did not set up alarm, wouldn't have noticed <<< i imagine this sounds better in german :D