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mircea_popescu: in fact the monograph is a result of me getting sick of referencing it blind)
mircea_popescu: oddly you're the 2nd person to ask me this today. has it just been re-released or something ?
mircea_popescu: " When he stumbled on a road crew without a foreman one day, Cole leaped into the breach and directed the men to London’s busy Piccadilly Circus, where he had them excavate a huge trench in the street. A nearby policeman obligingly redirected the heavy downtown traffic all day, and it was several hours before the city noticed the unauthorized hole.”
mircea_popescu: zee romanians have this yoke thing. at the rate the eu is going... by 2114...
mircea_popescu: if you had wandered into bookshelv in vienna cca 1814, you'd have seen the same book
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or, who knows, maybe the chinese start making actually good parts.
mircea_popescu: 10mn a year people had been paying just for those, in the hopes htey'll sell them on to suckers. something tells me 2013 had not colected 10mn worth of chump money.
mircea_popescu: punkman the success of "domainers" and domains being "real estate"
mircea_popescu: amusing how shitty psus became, incidentally. the originals usualy last > a decade. the replacements, maybe even 5 years.
mircea_popescu: the one similar thing i saw was purpose made copper tray filled with thermosilicone, on which pcb rested.
mircea_popescu: you basically had no cold source on the pcb. all the things you cooled were meanwhile heating towards it.
mircea_popescu: <artifexd> Ah. Yeah. Blocks for motherboards are available. They cover the north bridge/south bridge and the power caps. <<<
mircea_popescu: well, was this the toyota radiator thing in the image ?
mircea_popescu: as long as you keep most of the board cool, mostfets can't make enough heat to cook themselves.
mircea_popescu: i'm telling you, they'll be fine. you're thinking in terms of air movement removing heat, but even in a sealed case,
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> pc mobo is encrusted with items like mosfets that presume circulation of air << not really. mostly actually cool through the metal of the pcb
mircea_popescu: artifexd imo the interior/exterior distinction is spurious. both work the same way really.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but if they're metal... you can thread it
mircea_popescu: (this neatly dovetails in stan's "deform barbs" problem above : if you're building an army you don't want a 2nd cavalry, to argue with your 1st. you want an infantry too)
mircea_popescu: artifexd you know you could just glue it on the outside.
mircea_popescu: if an abstract "quality" value could be broadly associated, it went up a degree of magnitude each decade since 1960
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you should prolly look into it again. you thinkl moore law's a big deal, give a look at plastics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's how i finaly allowed hairdryers et all in bathrooms.
mircea_popescu: artifexd: Water cooling sprung a leak and blew my power supply. I guess it could've been worse. << yes, actually. you could have been electrocuted.
mircea_popescu: so how do i leave a comment or anything to this tom guy ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: is this KeyError: " " ? << no that's some db issue
mircea_popescu: fix the fucking plumbing. once the fed stops leaking, the mold goes away. big whoop
mircea_popescu: that's he problem. an ok job is actually worse for them.
mircea_popescu: there's really no third way : either you moderate and are actually good at it, which so far is strictly mpex,
mircea_popescu: poor people are still poor. what's the deliverable exactly ?
mircea_popescu: ahahha that article's so lulzy, because this retarded shit is true.
mircea_popescu: "For most older Americans, calling yourself a liberal means you want to increase the size, scope, and spending of the government"
mircea_popescu: jesus who put stale pasta in Jessica Misener's cerebral cavity and why am i reading this sht.
mircea_popescu: to have a view eyes are not enough to see, nor mouth enough to speak, nor even some ganglion to somehow connect these two. in order to have a view one must have the ability to evoke that view in another, preferably another who does not care.
mircea_popescu: what happened to those old days when in order to have a view one first had to persuade ?
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why that thing's not more famous, it has just the right combo of freaky, cultured and humour to be another barbarella.
mircea_popescu: btw, if anyone's got 12 yos, get them "i sell the dead"
mircea_popescu: you know they'll make you dine as a citizenship test ?