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mircea_popescu: but ~color~ might actually do it too. metal is not uniformly reflective across spectrum
mircea_popescu: you're talking mms, nice large 3x, 5x, 8x glass is inexpensive.
mircea_popescu: in truth tho... something like a boomed magnifying glass may suffice here neh ?
mircea_popescu: maybe something by omax. afaik they were the standard budget item
mircea_popescu: i suspect problem may be rathere the operator than the performance of the hardware!
mircea_popescu: you can count the animal's tail hairs. the whole thing is a coupla mm in length.
mircea_popescu: i've seen the sort of pixelated bs the iphone spits out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, incidentally, part and parcel of the decay, all these eminently preventable diseases on marked rise in the us.
mircea_popescu: do you have the typical "coffee on blotter paper" erithrema, or what
mircea_popescu: all the microscopy only needed for first debug unit though, rite ?
mircea_popescu: it's kinda lulzy for me to re-read what i was saying pre-bitcoin, and discover it's... not changed.
mircea_popescu: but yes, if you run a php interpreter you've got a windows box, pretty much. state of the art in empire.
mircea_popescu: spyked, there's a reason they put all the blogs on the same one box :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, anyway, it's a wrapper, for a very hacky libssh.so
mircea_popescu: $ip_port = explode(",", ereg_replace("^.+ \\(?([0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3},[0-9]+,[0-9]+)\\)?.*".CRLF."$", "\\1", $this->_message
mircea_popescu: $go = !preg_match("/^([0-9]{3})(-.+\\1)? [^".CRLF."]+".CRLF."$/Us", $this->_message, $regs); <<
mircea_popescu: in strict terms, i believe that is a pretty tight php implementation of ftp. "shouldn't exist", maybe, whatever. there it is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, it's not directly evident to me this is rubbish, though i never used it.
mircea_popescu: ahh, the pleasure of ~being able to reference these~. thanks phf!
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, you're still doing the eulora computer thing ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: right. i was discussing the former. which, contrary to hopes&aspirations, owns the market.
mircea_popescu: by now it's a hoyota, son of used car lot owner built himself a car out of parts.
mircea_popescu: ~hypertext preprocessor~. wtf are you going to do ? do you want hypertext or don't you ? do you want separable parts or don't you ? it's a triangle, right, a) well specified tasks ; b) separable parts ; c) no glue needed. pick two.
mircea_popescu: take the obvious "wtf is with your >80 char lines omfg". well.. php is what's with it. hence the whole "it's a scripting language built atop a webotron, to glue it to a rmdbs, whadda ya want"
mircea_popescu: spyked, re the other thing, i expect the item can be both massively trimmed and significantly improved still. the discussion was carried in principle ("so manty lines!") not really objectively, "why this exact line for each line". i think it's entirely possible even the final product, as a conceptual ideal, may exceed (reasonable!) expectations of "how long code should be".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (not ~usefully~, obviously. it still runs all the various inca probing bullshit every cycle, of course)
mircea_popescu: "smart"phones for dumb people ; can only do 1 thing at a time, and that's it. no remanence, let alone permanence.
mircea_popescu: do you know, by the way, they've managed to do away with multitasking ?
mircea_popescu: myeah, ie o floare, ie un crin, ie parfumul cel mai fin.
mircea_popescu: word. stalinism without stalin, how the fuck is this even possible.
mircea_popescu: should billiardaires even talk to the lowly bank clerks on the internets ? just how haughty shall we get before there's really nothing left to talk about ?
mircea_popescu: so my question to you is : should someone who ~doesn't even own a computer~ (because no, her retarded "iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_2 like Mac OS X)" eminently is not a computer, nor anything even remotely LIKE mac os x) be allowed to comment ?
mircea_popescu: this'd be the problem. yes in the old days there was the lich and all that discussion. but fucking mind you that koschei was A WARRIOR in his fucking youth.
mircea_popescu: and this is not something they ever notice. and so fucking on, bleah.
mircea_popescu: and their improvements always are the same tired old farmwife bs.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would people who ~fundamentally disenjoy~ something nevertheless want to be "high profile" in it... this part is incomprehensible. really, talking to people is something you dislike doing and then you figure you wanna be a "high profile blogger" ? "yes mp, because it's all about shaping the landscape, not enjoying the landscape". right ? fucktard mcdullardson is going to ~improve~ upon how the world works.
mircea_popescu: hence imbecile nonsense a la "paywall garden". because no, steve jobs ain't no fucking genius, he came up with the exact same idiocy every group of idle 18yos came up with.
mircea_popescu: it's this specific breakage, the web keeps exposing. there's apparently two ends to the pendulum : on one hand, the net routes around damage ; on the other hand, the more it does that, the more excited the damage gets about getting in the way.
mircea_popescu: myeah. but it's so mean, you know, "oh, if we turn off comments then nobody will be able to rise to the top anymore ha-HA!!! we figured out something fundamental here!"
mircea_popescu: btw, i hope that's adequate payment for all the j/p spam ?
mircea_popescu: ti's very much highschooler syndrome. "oh, i guess we're the seniors now" "why ?" "do you see any other seniors in the cafeteria ?" "well, not in the cafeteria you go to" "word."
mircea_popescu: "high profile bloggers" figure status and performance should be divorceable. this happens about 2-3 times every decade, with a new crop of "high profile bloggers" who a) misjudge their status and b) figure they'll discover shit.
mircea_popescu: you wanna drive cars that make you love driving and wanting to drive, not jalopys that encourage you sitting on the couch. and the same for everything everywhere. the stories about kids ruined for school because couldn't see and no glasses aren't made up, this was the scourge of a generation. and on it goes.
mircea_popescu: there's coffee machines that make you not really want any coffee. this is not merely a bad coffee machine.
mircea_popescu: in short, that's a ~HUMONGOUS~ cost, if the "mechanical support" alters the result from + to -.
mircea_popescu: his is not a small matter, but in fact the only large matter.
mircea_popescu: "thetarpit blog scaffolding is a few kLoC of CL, but lacks *any* editor-side interface" << understand something : i publish more than anyone, and by anyone we don't mean solo operators, we mean whole fucking outfits. there's a reason for this. the fact that trilema is comfortable to me provides those last edges of extra productivity and intellectual leverage that convert exceptional performance into mindblowing performance. t
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