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decimation:
as the asic investment gets more expensive, it becomes more centralized and oliogopical
decimation: "That means that we don't have any other buildings. It's equivalent to taking Frank Gehry, who is considered the world's most famous architect by now and who is considered to be in the same league
as Jørn Utzon regarding doing magic aesthetics and magic buildings. ... That's the cost of the Sydney Opera House. It was not a success; it was a huge failure, in those terms. "
decimation: the megaprojects guy describes the failure of the sydney opera house: "The cost overrun was 1400%. And
as always when cost overruns happen, the architect was blamed, and his work situation became so uncomfortable, he found that he actually left the project in the middle, with his family, and flew out of Australia, never to return."
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 25-06-2015 04:12:48; asciilifeform: no one in natoreich has so much
as smelled $bil except by mercy of the crown.
decimation: these skills are not the same 'ting'
as taleb wrote
decimation:
as in, why does non-miner node even bother with txns?
assbot: Qualcomm teams with Branson on OneWeb satellite venture
as SpaceX CEO pursues rival constellation - FierceWirelessTech ... (
http://bit.ly/1Jkc8EI )
decimation: and note that doesn't help you completely with silicon,
as you have pointed out before
decimation: tried to simulate on fpga
as best
as he could
trinque: asciilifeform: it just clicked into place that these computers are precisely those field radios,
as you pointed out.
decimation: I tried to use it once, confusing
as hell and also barely documented
decimation: or
as in, can be exploited if reversing the wrong warez?
mats: asciilifeform: i don't have anything specific in mind. have been developing my talents in exploitation but i'm kind of stuck
as to how to move forward
mats: i want to easily see the values of all registers (
as noted before) including bit flags, fp registers, ...
BingoBoingo: <decimation> asciilifeform: c64 was cheaper than apple ii
as i recall << c64 was easily cheaply stamped product, Amiga was not
decimation: asciilifeform: c64 was cheaper than apple ii
as i recall
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the difference is minute. amiga, just
as bad assholes. << Sure. The biggest difference was Amiga paid more for parts on each box so they could get the niche live video production market. All the assholes, reamed on their chosen niches
mircea_popescu: the difference is minute. amiga, just
as bad assholes.
mircea_popescu: so we're switching "fiction
as written by a respected source" to "fiction
as alf feels like recounting it for the purpose of current convo" ?
mircea_popescu: pick one, they all have it,
as part of being credible.
mircea_popescu: just
as long
as it's a meaningless act, carefully sterilized, pointless and ineffectual.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> once you discover the hidden variable - that most of the creatures masquerading
as 'people' are actually apes - you are left without one side of the equation << Ah, the Roof problem. Rook shot up nine respectable civilized folk. If he really cared to address his precieved problem his target ought to have been a crack house.
mircea_popescu: might
as well say "you programmers don't need any money anyway, look at what google revenue is!"
mircea_popescu: the same would have been true if they were fighting cancer
as is true when they are fighting the usg.
mircea_popescu:
as far
as they are concerned, getting an even bummer deal than code monkeys. plus they have the family dynasties stuff to make it more painful.
mircea_popescu: arguably intellectual problems, such
as software, are easier to clean for being virtual rather than physically embodied
mircea_popescu: i am not sure this simplification works
as you intend it to.
mircea_popescu: this scenario only plays out in your own mind (admittedly poisoned by a lot of interaction with idiots). in reality it's like this : there are more jobs than people. the system where you pay people a salary only works when there are more people than jobs. when there are more jobs than people you essentially create a large excavator of sense on a large mountain of problems, and divy up the results somehow. such
as they
mircea_popescu: for pay to work
as you expect there's a strict requirement that jobs < people.
mircea_popescu: and yet <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu:
as far
as these folks are concerned, gentoo may
as well be a particle accelerator at dubna, ru
mircea_popescu: "The crappy 3D support on Mac OS is in direct conflict with that goal. Furthermore,
as a non-Mac OS user, I would kindly request that no disproportionate developer effort be spent on such an inadequate and developer-hostile platform.
mircea_popescu: anyway. jobs could have pulled something like this off, maybe,
as an outlier result. mostly, he'd have failed miserably while denying it all along.
kakobrekla: >The Navy tried to sail away from XP in 2013, but it seemed to hit some headwind with the project
as of May this year it still had approximately 100,000 workstations running XP or the other software.
mircea_popescu:
as the costs to prop it up just keep on growing and eventually tyhe whole "ecosystem" collapses
mircea_popescu: but runs
as in what ? "can't access the driver, here's a nice welcome box" ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah, apparently the problem is that whatever actual driver support they had, marginal
as it was, they're chucking in the new osx
phf: asciilifeform: right, no surprises there so far. i thought that maybe
as blockchain grows the cumulative delay will increase, but i don't see that happening yet
BingoBoingo: Goat and lamb both delicious,
as are suckling pigs
pete_dushenski: and the scope of science such
as it exists currently is woefully inadequate to study the matter
mircea_popescu: i suppose on the surface "sudden infant death" seems insanity,
as adults don't do anything like that.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu go figure that the courts would find personal responsbility where there is none to counterbalance their continued lenience when it's actually there,
as with 'insanity' pleas.
ascii_field: (usg counts
as 'employed' anyone of working age who isn't collecting state-funded 'unemployment pension')
thestringpuller: my mom woulda put me in the ground had I spoken like that to her
as a kid
nubbins` weeps
as his sides crumble and fall
mircea_popescu: ascii_field iirc the agreement was that it can go,
as it serves no useful purpose nor has for a long time - but not a priority. we're atm working on getting the priorities in AND RUNNING
mod6: So anyway, we'll have to remember this when we revist the Checkpoints issue. My patch will be rejected then, and we'll come up with something that gets rid of line 939
as well
as pulling the checkpoints themselves out of checkpoints.cpp and into a separate config file.
ascii_field: i don't have a prayer of doing half
as good a job
as hanbot on this one.
mircea_popescu: the reason there's nothing left there but crooks is precisely that the onl;y deal available is "i try to steal
as much
as i can, if you catch me you get it and i take a vacation"
mircea_popescu: it's pretty automated
as it is. look through wall street "prosecutions" sometime.