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mircea_popescu: lemme fish out
the conversation with
this worthless dumbass, it is apropos.
mircea_popescu: you see... it's not a problem
that
there won't be infrastructure available. it'll just "not be worth using". what, it can't even unicode in colors ?
mircea_popescu: the
truck is available. but it IS NOT WORTH IT. and besides... all
the other kids will laugh at him.
mircea_popescu: it's
the essential item of "what's worth". do you recall
the kid
that got a
truck for his birthday ?
mircea_popescu: crisis is, by and large, a process in
the heads of
the people.
mircea_popescu: understand,
the problem hre is not of "available
technology".
the
technology stays avaiolable
throughout.
mircea_popescu: tbh, i had originally written pentium i and
then cancelled it out.
ascii_butugychag: not so much of a difference in
tech level required b/w z80 and pen
mircea_popescu: the middle died long ago. my idea is
that one of
the horns is headed for a major splat, and well... it likes
to
think
there's not another horn. fortunately
this is not so.
mircea_popescu: does
this actually coallesce into a point or not yet ?
mircea_popescu: i suspect
they won't wish
to live in
the alternate world.
mircea_popescu: they won't be able
to keep on supplying
themselves with computers capable
to make "fair" unicode.
ascii_butugychag: most folks who ever lived, happily lived and died within a few metres of
the
the ground. but fall out of just one airplane...
mircea_popescu: so,
to come
to
terms :
the sv circus is already bordering on unable
to maintain its presence. which is why "the cloud" and so forth.
mircea_popescu: their shitty plastic
thing will be worn
through on
the 3rd pass.
mircea_popescu: the other fact of
the matter however is
that most if not all of
those 16 women don't even own a scarf
that could be used as described. because
they don't buy by
THAT criteria.
mircea_popescu: now... fact of
the matter is
that most women
to date have lived and
thrived and been happy in
the "horrible" situation described.
mircea_popescu: and c) no,
the electricity's not coming back. and no, i don't mean
tonight.
mircea_popescu: so sixteen husbands come back home one evening and explain
to sixteen wives
that honey : a) eating out is out of
the question from now on. and b) you're going
to wash your scarf by hand. and use it
to make a diaper. and
then wash it by hand.
mircea_popescu: five years later,
the "water
table" so
to speak changes. like you know, it changed in
the ukraine recently, or in moscow in 1988.
mircea_popescu: so : i am a rich land developer, i buy some land, develop housing. it's 16 lots, which are bought
the same year by 16 couples.
mircea_popescu: indulge me with an example
that's domestic for a moment.
mircea_popescu: you have
to appreciate
tho :
to
them, it is not a waste. it's a raison d'etre and so fundamental its unwind would make life worth living.
mircea_popescu: soon enough
they won't be able
to afford
to pay for computers.
mircea_popescu: but
the point remains
that what I use computers for and what
they use computers for are very much disjunct, and relevantly so :
they require about
two or maybe
three degrees of magnitude more materiel.
mircea_popescu: well
this discussion is
too far removed from
tactics
to be readily wrappable into something
that'd make any sort of sense at
that level.
mircea_popescu: as such, it is conceivable
that z-80 powered
trb can actually drive into
the ground 12nm process powered united-prbs.
mircea_popescu: in economic
terms, approach B is A LOT more resource
thirsty. from a planning perspective,
the world is undeniably going into a resource-scarce phase.
mircea_popescu: the idea being
that
there are
two discrete and identifiable uses of computing power. one is as above : leverage for already present intelligence.
the other is as in
the webstack : compensation for absent intelligence.
mircea_popescu: to make an alternate but related point : i just ran grep -Fxv -f on
two files, about a million records
together.
the ~quarter mn result
took all of
two seconds.
mircea_popescu: not anymore
than
the soviets actually wanted
to marry
to
the hitler-era notions of economic activity and growth
mircea_popescu: but no.
the more i
think about it,
the more etched silicone is not something you wish
to marry
to.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i've been
thinking lots about your famous silicone whine. (ie, "trb can't exist until etching plant"). from a
twu wuv perspective, what we actually need is an alternate
technology. i am guessing
that a) it will exist and b) whoever deploys it will be
trb anyway.
mircea_popescu: "preserve state of
the shitstack so our software works"
ascii_butugychag: lulzy, seems like
they lifted all
the nontrivial pieces (e.g., 'malloc') from *bdf
assbot: Logged on 31-10-2015 04:44:04; v_diddy: have worked with
them numerously!
davout: yeah, i don't clean mine because i only cook potatoes in
there
mircea_popescu: it is porous yes.
through use it acquires a working glaze
tho.
davout: what's
that "cleaning" you speak of?
punkman: mircea_popescu: isn't
the unglazed ceramic porous?
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's cleanned by rubbing well with very coarse salt,
then adding water and heating it like
that for a while.
davout: cunt works
too i guess
davout: next
time you make
that don't hesitate
to share, i'm interdasted :D
mircea_popescu: davout anyway, its usually a 5 liter-ish, unglazed clay pot with a lid (that can be made airtight by applying a butter seal). i usually cook potatoes with meat in
them (potatoes on
the outside, make a house for hte meat). also great for mousaka, lasagna etc
mircea_popescu: seriously, send
them oxen back
to
the farm,
there's no need for freeing
THESE particular slaves.
mircea_popescu: where a sequence of eleven Unicode characters would be intended
to be rendered as a single colourized glyph showing a multiracial family." <<
these people fundamentally misunderstand what an alphabet is.
mircea_popescu: *
Tomiii (~Tommiii@garza.riseup.net) has joined #bitcoin-assets << lolwut.
☟︎ fluffypony: and here I
thought a Dutch oven was when you farted under
the blankets
mircea_popescu: davout
the sort of dutch oven i use is also made of clay.
BingoBoingo: ^ 7 percent drop in CSI300 before
trading suspension
gribble: Error: Failure
to retrieve
ticker.
Try again later.
BingoBoingo: Apparently social engineers at
twitter are
trying
to push #YallQueda and #VanillaISIS on
the Oregon narrative
fluffypony: I want
to represent myself as a strong black woman pony
fluffypony: I'm so glad, I was worried
there wouldn't be a way
to change
the colour of
the pony emoji
jurov: yay, hope
they will add all
the other colors,
too. so
that gorbachev's head can be accurately rendered
punkman: hoc Committee has come up with an cunning solution
that allows for
the combination of emoji characters, emoji modifier characters and zero-width joiner characters
to produce arbitrary emoji glyphs, where a sequence of eleven Unicode characters would be intended
to be rendered as a single colourized glyph showing a multiracial family."
punkman: "This solution may work for Unicode characters showing a single person, but you may wonder how multiracial emoji symbols showing
two or more people with different skin
tones could be represented. Would
there, for example, be a way of specifying
that U+1F46A 👪 family should be rendered with mother, father and child with different skin
tones?
The answer would seem
to be no; but
the Emoji Ad
punkman: "By
themselves
these five characters are intended
to be displayed as square fragments of colour, but when combined with any of a defined set of Unicode characters representing people or human body parts
they should magically change
the character's skin
tone."
punkman: for
the Unicode Consortium
to encode racially diverse versions of emoji characters representing humans or human body parts, and under intense pressure from
the public,
the media, and consortium members such as Apple and Google,
the Unicode
Technical Committee put forward a set of five emoji skin
tone modifier characters as a solution."
punkman: "As
the representative glyphs for people in
the Unicode code charts look in many cases as if
they represent white people, even in monochrone, and as
the earliest implementations of multicoloured glyphs
tended
to show very pale skin
tones,
there has been an impression
that Unicode is only catering for a certain racial demographic. Over
the last year or
two
there have been widespread calls
davout: just clean
them a bit with water,
throw
them in, 20 minutes microwave, and you get really great potatoes
punkman: I suppose it'd be good for chestnuts and
things
davout: it has more
to do with
the way it's manufactured
than and actual functional necessity
punkman: davout, a lot of
them seem
to have a little hole on google images, seemed weird, guess it doesn't go all
the way
through
the handle
davout: punkman: mine doesn't have a handle, and no, it doesn't really need holes for air and steam
to escape,
the
thing is not
tightly shut
punkman: davout, does
the handle of
the
thing have a hole for air
to escape?
davout: anyway, i
think it's
the
type of
things
that is best when simply demonstrated
davout: mircea_popescu: it shares with
the dutch oven
the fact
that it's a pot i guess, it's exclusively made of clay
though
punkman: "Confidential data from maritime industry insiders based on engine size and
the quality of fuel
typically used by ships and cars shows
that just 15 of
the world's biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all
the world's 760m cars." << and
the warmingtards are worried about VW
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lmao. browsers
top 10 : HTTrack 33.4 % Unknown 32.1 % Google Chrome 11.4 % etc.
BingoBoingo: Post
text in blockquotes, because machine authored
davout: works on
the fire, in
the oven, on a stove, and more surprisingly also in a microwave
davout: mircea_popescu: a "diable charentais" is what
the gods and enlightened french people use
to cook
their potatoes
ben_vulpes: must i actually compile
this motherfucker myself?
ben_vulpes: is it so much
to expect
the gentoo package manager
to know how
to install gdb?