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mircea_popescu: selector sat on an inclined cutout in the box, and the voltage was represented by squarish indentations on either side, increasing in size ?
mircea_popescu: let's see how far this goes. square, olive green converter box, with a white selector, sorta angular shape ?
mircea_popescu: yeah sounds like same. though i thought mine was from teh ddr.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the plastic pine trees, round things go on a stick ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, beautiful handpainted railcars, too, had a double beer barrel thingee, all sorts.
mircea_popescu: i didn't have incline ramps in mine. but yes, these existed
mircea_popescu: even something as simple as a figure 8 with 2 engines of diff powers was fun to watch
mircea_popescu: but it came with model houses, trees, bridges, multiple switches etc.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes generally around the age of 10-12 or so discover it can be applied to soft parts also.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the universal, uniyelding, perpetual and ubiquitous problem of "people" who were born even though god didn't have souls to supply the meat with is this : life's too heavy a burden.
mircea_popescu: wank is wank is wank. what do you mean "mathematical representation" ? ie, "depersonalization" ? how exactly is the number 3 going to be "personal"
mircea_popescu: subjective psychological phenomena are just that -- subjective.
mircea_popescu: not anymore than remanence of vision can exist "in" a camera.
mircea_popescu: esthlos i dunno what it means tho. how do you mean, consciousness jumping ?
mircea_popescu: esthlos Mocky either of you ever read the luminous rewrite ?
mircea_popescu: they're usually very excited about "brain percentages" and usually mozart figures in the verbiage.
mircea_popescu: often they band together and try to opress young republicans with "programs for exclelence" batshit insane nonsense along the veins of "this kid learned to read at 3 months old!"
mircea_popescu: but the shocking part is, they have no formal diffusion, they're all individual/solitary and yet very uniformly minded.
mircea_popescu: "if only children floated in a soup of abstraction there'd be no world hunger" sorta wikiwank.
mircea_popescu: "oh, the children" hurr durr, always boils down to a sort of listless, old pedophile's excitement.
mircea_popescu: phf amusingly, this is a ~type~, like the 90s academic in the pepit jacket with the square bag slung over shoulder.
mircea_popescu: i can;t fucking believe english doesn't have an equivalent for "hangman's face"
mircea_popescu: because they permitted all sorts of patibulaires take over the show. with retards like marc shitdressen and paul graham handling the funding, usg tech went to shit.
mircea_popescu: and in the spirit of their imbecility, they think this failure justifies... MORE OF THE CAUSE OF IT
mircea_popescu: jesus christ, imagine this wonder, two decades of "political corecntess" and "stop rape" and "yes means notanal" and whatever the fuck "empathy" and "really really understanding girls" and whatnot has reduced success rate to 0%
mircea_popescu: come to think about it... i don't know of a single case of girl laying a... student.
mircea_popescu 's only eyes on us campuses are female, may impose rosy glow.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i dunno about that, man. from the slut's angle, there's a lot of plain fucking going about.
mircea_popescu: i always suspected su never got enough foreign made to end up with the conventions.
mircea_popescu: so anyway, if you find a z80 with that beta on it, you got a genuine ro made item.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pretty sure baneasa made them ; but stopped ccaq 1988 and i doubt any crates survive untouched
mircea_popescu: ro was getting all sorta decadent bourgeois items by the late 80s.
mircea_popescu: there were also the "window" eeprom things, yes, but not really the same thing.
mircea_popescu: esthlos yeah, by now there's a very large userbase for emacs established.
mircea_popescu: item is 2004, and thoroughly infested with ms-isms. sadly earlier items not really online
mircea_popescu: this generally is the thing, "what a man and woman can do in their bedroom instead of another pregnancy"
mircea_popescu: the golden age of the z80 games was principally driven by the fact that an intellectual unit (at the time, one guy + one gal) could churn out a game per season. most of the great "studios" of the time were this, coupla married math teachers.
mircea_popescu: it's the exact sort of problem discussed re "scientific paradigms". dazzling array of alternatives results in manifestly inept behaviours.
mircea_popescu: this is not directly evident to me. it is impossible to use the killer micro as a timeshare machine, yes.
mircea_popescu: in discussion is the "can't do anything, pentium sucks"
mircea_popescu: tell you what, get me a box whose only remaining problem is that well... hardware sucks.
mircea_popescu: which fucking hell makes me itch for a knight's bounty session
mircea_popescu: sure ; but still plenty of dragons to be killed on this island, before taking airship.
mircea_popescu: when i was 16, my informatics teacher in the informatics lab told the kids upset at being stuck with the 286s (there were like half a dozen 386s too) that "if you ever get to where you mastered THAT cpu, you'll be way ahead of anything they teach in college anyway".
mircea_popescu: it's not "oh, errybody has a rotten plank or two keeping'em afloat." it's "oh, everybody ~can manifest matter by will~, currently everybody hanging off the bare minimum rotten plank and they're not even COMPARED".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i still gota plot < if i wanna see the graph of a csv. that's floating in lalaland.