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mircea_popescu: thatbitchlola do you understand why you need crypto in your line ?
mircea_popescu: danna33 52454fae << it's good for about half a n hour, don't dilly-dally.
mircea_popescu: thatbitchlola 563661f6 << it's good for about half a n hour, don't dilly-dally.
mircea_popescu: if they go up in step you have a pretty decent empirical reason to use raids like everyone else :D
mircea_popescu: mod6 keep an eye on the following item : lseek deaths vs increases of relocation counts.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it might be, i dunno it necessarily is, disk is far from dead-dead.
mircea_popescu: in general anything under warranty is considered perfectly ok. and afaik it's 10k or 20k hours depending.
mircea_popescu: mod6 61 relocation events... i guess it's starting to go the way of rust.
mircea_popescu: check out teh sudden productivities. what's that written there TrixxC , minnow ?
mircea_popescu: for instance, i'd very much like a spos for my torrent box -- a fs that only allocates the disk in 1mb chunks would be good ; a better nic driver would be better.
mircea_popescu: other similar assumptions could be baked, "this is a phuctor ; this is a torrents box, etc". but irrespective -- if any is baked it's a special purpose and if none is baked its a general purpose os.
mircea_popescu: the moment we bake in the assumption that "this is a bitcoin node", suddenly the os is no longer gp ; we'll want a special fs in there etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now then, a "general purpose operating system" is "that set of code which is trusted implicitly", "as long as it makes no particular assumptions about the rest of the code that will run on the machine".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: spyked how about THIS definition for the operating system : "that set of code that is trusted implicitly". this then makes EVERYTHING on a windows machine operating system, which i contend is right and proper -- the necessary result of opaque monolith systems design is universalization of the os.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tittybang 4b656366 << it's good for about half a n hour, don't dilly-dally.
mircea_popescu: because totally children have like intrinsic value and we give a shit and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: it has a decent atmosphere of psychotic terror, but otherwise yes, some evil dood is sucking the life out of chained children to prolong his own.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in spykedisms, 'I further propose that current definitions of the term operating system are ill-conceived, and that the problem of how to properly design a general-purpose operating system is in principle unresolvable, first and foremost because there is no such thing as a "general-purpose operating system"'
mircea_popescu: ah, yeah. anyway, it's pretty much a game of puzzle based on that chick's art.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: why'd someone package a "click through my art" in flash is anyone's guess. wtf the parasitosis!
mircea_popescu: the brief discussion supports the interpretation, her justification ultimately was "maybe i find something".
mircea_popescu: but of course, the methodist heresy is strong in our colonies, they imagine sin is the form of sin to avoid looking at the substance of anything.
mircea_popescu: by the time some waitress somewhere's willing to try just about any chemsludge in the hope she might extract herself from the imposition of the world as she perceives it, you'd be at serious pains to show her much of a sinner.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron amusingly enough, the argument can well be brought that the seeking lost are closer than the content.
mircea_popescu: nah it's ok lilly_ , you'll be famous for the hundred dollar phonecall. neeeext.
mircea_popescu: but this is principally a measure of how broken the society they come from actually is.
mircea_popescu: in any case, without exception known or possible, the adult that hallucinates childhood as a preferrable state has ~other~ issues.
mircea_popescu: rather than trying to revert to an imagined childhood to resolve whatever frustation/block, how about just being an adult.
mircea_popescu: so the good talk therapist would point out to the person interested in this particular magic pill exactly what he'd say to the "i want ai because i don't have a gf" nut : "have you tried the NATURALLY OCCURING solutions first ?"
mircea_popescu: there's no good reason to suspect the above model is not exactly the case with neurons and neotenification. moreover, there's EXCELLENT reason to suspect the interest is quite psychogenic.
mircea_popescu: and yes, you have carcinogenic substances, which make specialized cells "malleable". it's never superpowers, though.
mircea_popescu: now, you CAN induce chemically something very much like stem situation.
mircea_popescu: this is not possible, very strictly, because specialization happens in a single enthalpic direction : through information loss. no specialized cell will ever be a stem cell again, exactly in the way no broken glass will become the glass it was again.
mircea_popescu: consider a simple and more obvious case : taking a specialized cell and convincing it to revert to stem situation.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the very obvious "why on earth would you want something like that", it's a matter of certainty that no such wonder is chemically achievable.