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mircea_popescu: meanwhile, as 2020 is just around
the corner --
three quarters of
the
top quarter left.
mircea_popescu: by
the
time 2001 rolled around,
that nigger at dept of state and all
the rest of
the lulz -- about half of
the
top 5% had left
mircea_popescu: i suspect demographic collapse is at
the root of it. by
the end of 90s, about half of
the
top first percentile had left
the country.
diana_coman: how was it, "vin ai nostri, pleac-ai nostri, noi ramanem
tot ca prostii"
mircea_popescu: it's not any one detail,
though. it's
the system.
they've meanwhile re-crystalised
their idiocy, and it remarkably preserved just about all of it.
diana_coman: lolz, except
the dentist part
the rest sounds quite familiar re ro, yes
mircea_popescu: i could go on, but it's not worht anyone's
time. call
them centrul preorasenesc "romania", si mai da-i si-n pula.
mircea_popescu: be it
the "dj" who, atop
the roof of a parking lot, is
trying
to "mc" some of
the saddest retarded-white-trash-kids-from-the-ghetto-made-themselves-a-band-just-like-their-mommies-heard-those-rich-suburban-kids-used-to-do-in-THEIR-moms-garages-backintheninteties
mircea_popescu: be it
the dentist who doesn't have an imaging cabinet at her "smileup
tooth health center", and KNOWS she should, and goes
to incredible lengths
to subtly deal with
this orally, get me
to do
this and
that for her
TWENTY DOLLAR consultation fee
mircea_popescu: all
the way
to
the drastic sadness of "supermarket" stocking or "posh" hangout places, including
there
the relationship of
the people
themselves
to
the obvious (and obviously disavowed) awareness of
their inadequacy.
mircea_popescu: dying-dead-decaying-decayed as a metaphorical approach sounds
trite
through overuse, but it's also chillingly accurate. from
the very specific feel of
the particular manner in whichaustro-hungarian architectural heritage's decaying (becayse yes,
this is very highly specific, it's not just a word or just
ten words, it's "german musical universe" sort of precise, particular and specific)
mircea_popescu: in other shit nobody cares about, it's quite impossible
to describe just how much romania's decayed since joining
the eu -- particularly in
the past 5/10 eyars.
deedbot: lobbes updated rating of Mocky from 1
to 3 << met irl; he's good people
deedbot: lobbes rated Mocky 1 at 2018/05/19 00:55:42 << newblood^rad; does
things, keeps blog
a111: Logged on 2019-06-04 13:29 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-04#1917019 << i'ma describe, for
the l0gz,
the hypothetical. suppose mips emu in asm (
the heathen item in fact compiles
to a 30kB elf , not esp. complex, but would want clean rewrite really ).
this'd be proggy
that
takes disk image and it
tx/rx raw frames
to/from nic, so can have own ip etc.
then 1 large amd box can host coupla 100 instances of mips linux from known image. <1s
teardown/bringup.
mircea_popescu: women have
this great advantage,
that
they cvan fuck dressed.
BingoBoingo: The
two auctions delivered an exchange rate of 7250 usd/BTC,
the 500 USD auction actually returned
the lower of
the
two rates (7143 versus 7269 for
the dc wire)
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Two S.MG servers
through June 2020
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diana_coman: (my current going
through huge lists of oh, add x
textures and
then for each of
them y shaders and z lights etc doesn't make me
think any higher of
the paint-the-wood approach either)
diana_coman: fwiw I must say
that it's precisely
this "let's paint
the fence" approach
that put me off computer graphics in
the first place because my uni
taught nothing else and I foolishly believed
them
that
there was nothing better either.
mircea_popescu: job security, it's a primum bonum in
the ustardian understanding of "free market"
diana_coman: myeah, except I'm no graphics expert (and
the pile of burnt is already big)
mircea_popescu: im not all
that sold on blits being right
thing either.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-14 18:06 mircea_popescu: because movement and fitting arbitrary shapes
together (eg, "equipped
the helmet") you need osature and all sorta abstractions.
mircea_popescu: yeah.
that
thing was beautiful
then, but did nto scale.
mircea_popescu: the reason blits won is
that you want nipples on
the
tits, niot just some vague color shade
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 13:32 asciilifeform: incidentally, apropos of gamez
thread,
there was very interesting french msdos item, 'little big adventure',
that blew asciilifeform's mind, had 2010s-style graphic on 40mhz 486. ( how ? clever gourad system, and pile of asm i suspect )
mircea_popescu: the point was "why api".
the anwer is, because underlying reality very complex, it helps
to have an indirection layer.
mircea_popescu: because movement and fitting arbitrary shapes
together (eg, "equipped
the helmet") you need osature and all sorta abstractions.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: That
they sold it
to flat assed secretaries
to do mailing lists doesn't change what it is.
BingoBoingo: Well
they had
the macro
thing all of
the period rapeware used.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Why did MSWord need
to change .doc every couple versions?
a111: Logged on 2019-06-14 07:15 mircea_popescu: <mp3butcher> big work indeed (blender api keep changing all
the
time) << i don't intend
to support
that, really. for one it's not really
TMSR
tradition ; for
the other
there's
that entire
femfiasco.
BingoBoingo: So it appears.
Thing appears set
to go
to end in a run off between
the FA candidate and
the Blanco candidate with
the Colorado candidate serving only
to make sure
the
thing goes
to a runoff.
BingoBoingo: The practical effect ended up being one big advertisement for
the Economist-kin
hanbot: mircea_popescu
the one
that looks like lillian gish? sure.
mircea_popescu: <mp3butcher> big work indeed (blender api keep changing all
the
time) << i don't intend
to support
that, really. for one it's not really
TMSR
tradition ; for
the other
there's
that entire
femfiasco.
☟︎ lobbes: heh, I have a buddy here
that did just
that