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mircea_popescu: i'd be surprised if "the public" has the werewithal to even liberate 500 of them, should a pill be available now.
mircea_popescu: if it's software and it's found, well... they'll make a firmware upgrade yes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, the only problem is, i'm paying bitcoin to fix google's crapolade ? this sounds a lot like the soviet-sponsored "criticism of capitalism"
mircea_popescu: the claim to the contrary is a political ploy put forth by the enemies of humanity.
mircea_popescu: "smart" cards are not usually all that hardened in practice.
mircea_popescu: "grandfather's sword won't work for you until you get a horse like your grandmother."
mircea_popescu: and moreover, i think it is important to MAKE THIS A DIFFERENTIATION POINT.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, there is such a thing as people with cars and pack animals.
mircea_popescu: something like the ipad retina, but in 45/35 rather than bs 15 x 12 cm they got.
mircea_popescu: Display size: 17.6" × 13.2" = 232.32in² (44.7cm × 33.53cm = 1498.84cm²) at 79.55 PPI, 0.3193mm dot pitch, 6327 PPI² << get a sxga+ in there.
mircea_popescu could almost go for a 400 x 450 mm laptop chassis, provided it includes a proper sized kbd.
mircea_popescu: heck, some actuallty even have gauge on themselves. i've seen this. it's not expensive or hard to make.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i didn;t mean VOLTMETER. i meant, separate doohickey.
mircea_popescu: have a fucking mechanical gauge, steampunk all the way
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, that does NOT need to be part of the computer.
mircea_popescu: but the last thing anyone fucking wants is an even smaller laptop.
mircea_popescu: regulators aren't expensive. and nothing wrong with 5v from battery either.
mircea_popescu: i haven't identified a use for laptop yet besides "dumbphone replacement for aspiring slavegirls".
mircea_popescu: i mean, it's the same thing, but at least mine got tits.
mircea_popescu: i suppose you just buy a live-in slavegirl to do the job eventually.
mircea_popescu: eh, it's not clear it's worth soldering anything to begin with
mircea_popescu: oh, also, lest i forget : see alf ? you just don't do the upping correctly, is all.
mircea_popescu: goes right with the "about the size of a... scorpion, with a dangly apendage behind, looking like a ... scorpion tail" girl saw yest... FLYING.
mircea_popescu: turns out to have been... A FUCKING MOTH. nectar eating night guy.
mircea_popescu: and in other "only in this country" lulz, i see a dark halfinch long form squrrying under the bottle washer behind the kitchen skin tap. so i'm all, you know if you've ever lived in new york, or buenos aires, or generally a large town, "fuck you, you little bitch" kill! kill! kill! mode.
mircea_popescu: alright. see the topic / read the logs / register a rsa key etc.
mircea_popescu: THEN they "moved on to unity". because "it's slicker visually".
mircea_popescu: these idiots (project something or the other, i forget) spent ten years to reach this pinnacle ; and the whole time wondering why their ~server~ can't hold more than five or so people connected.
mircea_popescu: the modern equivalent of those medievally fixed timepieces, compensated, recompensated and re-recompensated until the count of moving parts exceeded the "engineer's" capacity to count.
mircea_popescu: in any case it's very much "this is what foss is", a token and an icon.
mircea_popescu: also, pfalz is not per se an area in germany ; it's a bunch of areas. originally [holders of] palatine lands elected the emperor, so it's really akin to saying portland-tmsr and seattle-tmsr. tmsr isn't a plage, it's a designation.
mircea_popescu: phf, linguistics and phonetics is a major solvent for post-medieval mysteries. in some cases even earlier. a lot hinges on what kind of attic or aeolian or whatever other obscure way to say o and u someone employed.
mircea_popescu: (plattdeutsch is how you get from pfalz to paltz ; very similar to how idish works... or rather worked, it's pretty much dead.)
mircea_popescu: there's this joke in romania that "if you hear a hungarian speaking foreing languages you're looking at a jew".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but the notion of french huguenots speaking plattdeustch...
mircea_popescu: this may even be true. the exact meaning of "huguenot" in the period, much like "protestant" etc, is a lot more diverse than contemporaries (like to) think.
mircea_popescu: paltz, for the curious, is idish for the german palatinate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, btw, do you want to see what to my eyes became epitomical "get this to compile with gcc 8.1" code ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf, looked to me like a regrind (patrch got absorbed)
mircea_popescu: i'm just going by the stereotype. he dun look like jackie brown, he's not enjoying a +ev situation with usg.whatever.
mircea_popescu: it's not clear to me google much hires your type, unless they're mamies.
mircea_popescu: seems more often "orc, who could have been lord, instead sells cigs out of a suitcase".
mircea_popescu: perversity only starts from a certain brainbox cubage onwards.
mircea_popescu: and yes, amoeba is staunchly republican. no pantsuit amoeba available.
mircea_popescu: that's 100% what the shitstack is ; and i bet you amstan for instance is in shock over there in his silent dounce corner, "omfg, these people are impressed ~negatively~ with my political committments ?!?!?! they despisew me ?!!??! how could this be omfg"
mircea_popescu: "what is mgm, with a patch on the eye on the corner begging for nickles ? they repackage free shit idiots gave them in the hopes of '''making name for selves''' and pretend like they;re in business"
mircea_popescu: they don't need to be paid, that's what an idiot is. who pays the wind to pull down your barn ?
mircea_popescu: the notion that corpses put disinfo on forums because google pays them to is not unlike the notion idiot chinese teenager spams because the sinospam conspiraci pays him to.
mircea_popescu: mr "oh i don't wanna work for google to pay 5x in rent what their salary is". or we dun remember that now ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, really ? because last i heard, from tu quoque no less, he... wasn't making payroll.
mircea_popescu: last thing normie muppet will do, no matter what, is admit he was a normie muppet.
mircea_popescu: heck, idiots had medals from the tsar long after 1920.