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mircea_popescu: but im curious wtf happens if one of the cells goes to shit and starts heating. turn off whole battery ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> yeah turns out the 'advanced' battery pack is just a pile of standard lithium batteries wired in strings << i have no idea what's so advanced about it, basically the whole car is powered offa one of those 4.5 volt things discussed here previously
mircea_popescu: dude wtf tolerances are those, 10% resistence 20% inductance
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform's iphone does things with the milkman ?!
mircea_popescu: mike_c hey, you never made a banner for the analysis page ?
mircea_popescu: so i get to expect it does absolutely anything i can imagine.
mircea_popescu: jurov well their claim was "the most advanced bmc in teh possibru!!1"
mircea_popescu: decimation wait, so the tesla bmc actually can't charge/discharge the cells individually
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw you still hold solar panels cost more energy to make than they produce ?
mircea_popescu: jurov always the negativist. think, the problem of splitting the pie! always a np problem!
mircea_popescu: i definitely love going in old blogs comment sections to fish for these sorts of gems
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "To be publicly critical of a project that is still so young and involves so many degrees of freedom reflects poorly on your own intelligence."
mircea_popescu: "Possibilitarian, #Cryptocurrency enthusiast & student of philosophy. I hope to make the world better than I found it. Bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: im surprised nobody came up with the don knuth is satoshi knack yet.
mircea_popescu: "give me this cup full of 2/7" should result in a cupful
mircea_popescu: decimation honestly, filling the register ain't buggy.
mircea_popescu: no, cause the no play is not a computer, it's a wife./
mircea_popescu: basically you're saying "take this thing from a compact representation to an infinite representation on a finite space without loss"
mircea_popescu: that';s not a guarantee finite-register machines can make
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can only put 00000007 and 00000002 in the registers, and the result will be 28571428 and an overflow bit.
mircea_popescu: in a computer the output of "abc" is "abc' rather than whatever windows may spit out with a bad charset or w/e
mircea_popescu: and i'll venture a guess that more computer insecurity was caused by this than any other one thing
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> why do we have floating point hardware instead of rational arithmetic towers? << but we don't. we have rational arithmetic towers pretending (unconvincingly) to be floating point hardware
mircea_popescu: just in case, who knows, maybe it's used in some case.
mircea_popescu: back then people hadn't figured what the pc is, so they just bolted some capitalistic crap to the sides
mircea_popescu: i just suddenly realised i don't understand why floats were even implemented, at all.
mircea_popescu: i didn't like the "were possible" part. either always, in which case it's a calculator, or forget it.
mircea_popescu: and i want to accomplish this by replacing quicksort.package with bubblesort.package
mircea_popescu: however, that's not the point. suppose i want my machine to always use bubblesort. everywhere
mircea_popescu: i guess, but originally i got very pissed off at ubuntu becaus you can't make a non-networking ubuntu machine without rewriting it all, instead of simply uninstalling netowrking.
mircea_popescu: i sometimes wonder how computing would work if linux weren't built on "packages" as implemented, but on actual functions
mircea_popescu: that may explain how we ended up with the current usg.
mircea_popescu: if it's voluntary, if the prickly is passive, then the other party is active, and to the active goes the agency.
mircea_popescu: maybe wrongly, but the term to me suggested involuntary and incontinence. which is what the entire observation was based on, after all :
mircea_popescu: it's being an ashole deliberately and oppressing selected idiots wilfully.
mircea_popescu: but that is a much more self aware, and effectually applied, violence than mere prickliness.
mircea_popescu: i would suggest the volume in and of itself is proof they say nothing.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, for the capacities of the basic rational agent, they'd seem to have a point, too!
mircea_popescu: proponents of such tailored "knowledge" will understandably fight tooth and nail with some classes of rational approach, such as the people who use the counterexample effectually (aka, trolls)