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mircea_popescu: using
the box as a general purpose computer is illegal << what ?
ascii_butugychag: and afaik
they don't sell any where it is epoxied in, you can unscrew
the case and remove all you like
copypaste: apple also ships boxes where
the batteries cannot be removed and where in less free countries using
the box as a general purpose computer is illegal
copypaste: clang claims
to be gcc?
the
things people do for "compatibility"
ascii_butugychag: and: 'We recently added
testing with clang, which resulted in lots of new failures.
These are not caused by GMP bugs, but rather by clang bugs, or on some case by compatibility problems between GCC and clang (the latter claims
to be GCC and
thereby is assumed
to be compatible). It is in most cases not possible for
the GMP
team
to resolve
this situation. For now, avoid clang if you care about correctness.'
ascii_butugychag: meanwhile... 'Spurious check failures happen for machines without ECC memory. Of our
test systems, all machines with Intel CPUs as well as some AMD low-end systems lack ECC.
This is a result of
that AMD supports ECC generally while Intel only supports ECC for Xeon CPUs relying on more expensive motherboards. But
the GMP project is struggling
to afford even
the cheapest hardware.'
copypaste: oh no, up until
that point it was an excellent metaphor, i understand why you left it where you did
mircea_popescu: shakespeare is difficult
to match in many ways, chief among which his inclination
to pander.
mircea_popescu: guy had
to do a
travesti because
that's what a comedy was at
the
time.
the situation of
true romance is very similar : compare
tarantino's own cut with
the bullshit
the studio released.
copypaste: so we're in agreement
then, even Shakespeare, one of
the so called greats, pandered often in his plays for "widespread appeal"
mircea_popescu: copypaste i
think it's nonsensical pandering and not really worth
the mention.
copypaste: i just found it odd how you skipped
the end is all
copypaste: contract is unenforceable and goes on
to seize all of
the merchant's money or however it goes
copypaste: also, mircea_popescu, if i may ask you what you
think of
the end of
the Merchant of Venice, in
this article
http://trilema.com/the-most-serene-republic-and-its-laws you quote a good portion of it, but skip
the end of
the proceedings where
the out of
town lawyer is invited in and (nonsensically, in a deus ex machina way, in my opinion) determines
that blood is not part of one's flesh and
therefore
the
mircea_popescu: well...
teh pr machine's looking for some hook on
this slippery eel.
copypaste: if
the best fiat can buy is such a poor understanding of bitcoin, we really have nothing
to worry about
mircea_popescu: and what's worse,
they
tend
to prefer
the latter disproportionately by quality.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is
that supplied with
the choice of "enforce
this hag's worldview" or "enforce mp's worldview", young women
tend
to prefer
the latter.
mircea_popescu: i have no doubt
that yes, if we wish for her heavily indebted persona
to be evenr marginally sustainable
then yeah, i OUGHT
to be unattractive etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah well... good luck and all
that, but it seems i'm discussing
the is and she
the ought.
ascii_butugychag: she 'knows' in
the same sense priest 'knows' sinner is hell-bound
mircea_popescu: pasted material being point in case,
the woman "just knows"
that i'm not attractive, notwithstanding
that i'm willing
to bet
that's
the most popular profile on
the entire site, and what
the fuck would she know about what gets
teeny sluts hot anyway ?!
mircea_popescu: there seems
to be a pervasive meta-conviction
that so and so, but i have never yet encountered
the
thing it purports as a practical matter. as best i can determine it's just another fashion, self-induced. people have read "on
the internet"
that
the government hid elvis in hoffa's urinary
tract and so now "everyone
thinks so".
ascii_butugychag: naturally. we all look like ants from
the porthole of mircea_popescu's atomic dirigible
ascii_butugychag: and mircea_popescu may be confusing 'is' and 'ought' -
the woman's place-in-the-world is something quite like
titled nobility, as it is
mircea_popescu: see something like
that, say something like
that for crying out loud. how
the fuck are
they
to know when
they're out of line if you never
tell 'em ?
mircea_popescu: and honestly, i blame you dumb fucks.
that dumbass lived her entire life without anyone ever
telling her what her place in
the world is, i'm ready
to bet. it's a shameful fucking situation.
mircea_popescu: that aside, men have been feeding women since before hammurabi. but, much like
the matter of charity, structural differences make
the difference.
mircea_popescu: this is
the situation of proletarians moved into kulak dwellings, heating
themselves with
the imported french furniture.
mircea_popescu: the marked similarities with
the legal notion and cultural mores of
the decaying roman empire, and
the strict disjunction from
the legal notions and cultural mores of
the flourishing roman early republic, or
the other republics avaialble gives
the story away.
ascii_butugychag: did it create it, or just pipe it
to where you can smell it ??
mircea_popescu: these
two work
together
to produce a very unhappy populace even in
the ideal case socialism.
mircea_popescu: you recall my explanation as
to why any socialism is always and necessarilyt going
to be unsatisfactory
to
the ruled mass ?
mircea_popescu: what
the "democratic" socialism needs is exponential. hence its love of "science".
mircea_popescu: for as long as you're committed
to not beating
the woman,
the necessary result is a vicious circle of ever more annoying, lazy bitches.
mircea_popescu: you're saying "at some point
they'll have
to stop marrying progressively more annoying lazy bitches"
ascii_butugychag: yes, at some point
they will have
to stop using progressively-dumber 'coderz'
mircea_popescu: THEY however, with
their needs
to compensate for absent intelligence
through
the deployment of computing hardware, DO need
the shit
to "improve".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i can do
the grepping i do on computers as
they are. and if
they'll be
twice as fast i won't notice. like i've not noticed any improvement since
the 90s.
mircea_popescu: the point is
that we need computing power
to increase logarithmically and
they need computing power
to increase exponentially.
mircea_popescu: the point, mind you, isn't even a "z80" planet. and yes i
think
that extremely unlikely.
ascii_butugychag: but it won't come back, any more
than piston engined fighter airplane
mircea_popescu: this
thing we're discussing here is such a hard limit.
mircea_popescu: but yes :
the policy of socialist government is
to keep rolling up its failures. until it hits a hard limit.
mircea_popescu: it means a lot more
than
that.
this fork will come stab
them in
the eye again and again AND AGAIN.
mircea_popescu: that i crushed
them like worms last year doesn't JUST mean i now have gavin's head and yet another painful humiliation inflicted upon usg's asshole.
mircea_popescu: the point however is not
this.
the point is
that... hm, how should it put it so it clicks. looky here : usgavin and his merry cattle
troop were not ranting about moore's law for no cause, early on.
they represent not some people, not some institutions, but some beliefs and a way of life. a culture.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : if it gets so bad
that no further chips can in fact be manufactured at some point,
then yes over
time existing hw will become unusable. maybe a few decades
tops.
jurov: mircea_popescu: you predict
this will be
the case?
jurov: the scenario "we will plod on z80 with 1 block/hr" calls for all of
the existing hw
to become suddenly unsuitable for mining
mircea_popescu: so
they'll be 1hr blocks, what difference does it make ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but
this doesn't matter : on a planet with z80s you can mine with z80s, and on a planet with asics
the asics
that mine STILL have
to mine.
jurov: i was
talking about blocks/transaction verification, not mining either
mircea_popescu: the only
thing
that matters is
the relative
terms, ie, relative of
total available.
this makes
the whole line moot, yes it'll be 50%+1 in all worlds, whether powered by pen on paper or star-sized megacomps.
jurov: so you say
that since you don't need custom silicon,
the problem does not exist?
mircea_popescu: so detached : bitcoin mining still has
to follow
the rules. consequently, how much power goes into it in absolute
terms is irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: jurov i wanted
to detach
the mining discussion from
this discussion, because it is unrelated.
jurov: obv yes, you can run
the job during breakfast, but bitcoin can't do it with blocks
mircea_popescu: so
there's a major differential, which colors
the discussion.
mircea_popescu: jurov no,
the point is
that what i need
the
things
to do,
they do well and i have space
to spare (heck, i went for breakfast, figuring it'll
take minutes. it would have been fine if it did). meanwhile what
THEY need
to do,
the machines already can't cope with.
jurov: mircea_popescu: i don't get
the premise, you're able
to grep gigabyte in 2s on z80?
mircea_popescu: wherein
there is some rudimentary sensation and motility as an aggregate.
ascii_butugychag: what i propose is
that
the cheap shed skin of
the snake, is not
the snake.
mircea_popescu: because if you can you must and because zero one infinity, and so
therefore, life's not worth living.
mircea_popescu: and as such, a subclass of "so just stop using
the damned colored unicode bs". not gonna happen.
mircea_popescu: for one
thing, what you're proposing is patently NOT FAIR.
mircea_popescu: as a result it ends up embarassed by charlotte manning or w/e
that was.
mircea_popescu: and
there is no special ft meade. we're
the only special interest
that exists. otherwise, ft meade still has
to hire from
the emoji, and it does.
mircea_popescu: if she had
to repay all her debts (and forget
the financial angle - if she had
to do all
the work
to count as educated at
the level of education she perceives herself
to occupy, manifest inability
to
think or even spell be damned) she'd simply figure "life is not worht living" and lie in a ditch
to die.