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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, aha. as it happens human inner ear uniquely unfit for flight.
mircea_popescu: and no, of course "not needed", "do we still have to DO that". because why the fuck learn from the few and far between successes of that sorry failed republic.
mircea_popescu: pretty much ONLY KNOWN SYSTEM where truthfully and genuinely, the promise of "drugs" or "tools" or whatever is actually fullfilled.
mircea_popescu: every time alf goes on about "mind enhancing tools" the pvhd is my mental model.
mircea_popescu: a: they both had this projected faint light line around the cockpit representing the true horizon. set so faint as to disappear in direct vision, it nevertheless informed the (more sensitive) peripheral vision, preventing accidents wonderfully!
mircea_popescu: in other same "burn down tools" : what unites the here discussed sr71 and the other excellent us plane ever built,
the warthhog ?
mircea_popescu: s sit in a circle and pick lice out of each other" is tooling.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the cunt lobby wants the tools destroyed, because the only thing that can oppose "let
mircea_popescu: same bunch of morons who ALSO pushed through very expensive but otherwise mostly pointless sensor upgrade -- also specifically so as to claiom "costly"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, re the sr being expensive : it was not particularly expensive, even by the day's standards. it was however besed by the dumb cunt lobby who, for instance, WOULD NOT permit it get upgraded with a data link, SPECIFOCALLY so they could claim "useless -- data only avsilable on landing"
mircea_popescu: obviously from THEIR pov if there isn't any such thing as a spear to fucking poke them until they submit (yes, the SPEAR was the original society-changer, turned human tribes from matriarchy to patriarchy because finally there was an efficient way to make the dumb cunts stfu with their dumb nonsense) all the better ; but theirs isn't a legitimate pov.
mircea_popescu: if there's ten, ten million or no dumb cunts sitting around their holy tree or whatever the fuck chanting their spurious nonsense it makes no fucking difference whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, cheney's stupid cunt of a daughter inherited his wyoming ealrdom.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the sort of thing involved there, such as "listen sonny, ever heard of Schlieren flow visualisation ? no ? look here, this is supersonic jet in flight!" are the primary dirvers of intelligent adolescents even putting in the work to become adult engieners in the first fuckin gplace
mircea_popescu: large undergirth of the whole "republican-democrat" debate being pepsicans. most of the manginas involved were republicans.
mircea_popescu: btw asciilifeform is it practical to have an archival of links it sees bolted on to bot ?
mircea_popescu: incredible, i never had that atrocious outrage ambered before ?!
mircea_popescu: apache is in many parts a better system (in the sense of "system" used in "systems design) than the post-poettering and especially post-linus kernels ; mod_lisp may be a decent way to get lisp running in practice
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i'm quite happy with jfw 's "Actually "mod_lisp" is perhaps a misnomer; it could be viewed as a generic IPC interface that comes with a Lisp implementation of the server side." comment.
mircea_popescu: (and, while at it, how the first analog computers were developed -- no, it wasn't bomb calculators, it was jet engine air intake anti-unstarters for applications such as this guy.)
mircea_popescu: 'find out how a loose assemblage of rare metal parts flew on insecticide', how about that for a title.
mircea_popescu: oh, and of course it burns synthetic fuel, rather than distillate. so yes, chemical engineering too.
mircea_popescu: (great story re fabrication, too. item is 80%+ titanium, can't be washed in tap water, can't be touched with cadmium-plated tools, its story is totally worth reading from an 'achievement of human mechanical engineering' perspective.)
mircea_popescu: sonic flight) that its fucking tanks leaked fuel on takeoff ~as a design feature~.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in highlights : the sr71 was probably man's greatest achievement wrt flight. item carried no flares/countermeasures, because its defense if fired upon was to... accelerate, and outrun the missile. mach 3 capable, flying at 20-25km, never shot down, its parts fit so loosely on the ground (because of the significant temperature variation it operated under, between relatively cold on the ground and very hot in super
mircea_popescu: there was, of course, no supersonic civil flight since the concorde/tu144 retirements, so i suppose we could use 1970s as a high water mark. but if anyone's having kids these days, i believe by the time they're our age their only interaction with flight will be in the
hanging-on-ropes format.
mircea_popescu: Let halves of aeroplanes turn overhead, their smoking, broken cockpits dripping "it is done"...
mircea_popescu: continuing trend set with "civil air managed to lose early 2010s the combined profits realised since man discovered flight" (and then continued by obama's ending of nasa to redirect the money no more properly african goals), white man is actually getting out of aerospace altogether.
mircea_popescu: in simple words, the
F35 failure is bringing about a winter the likes of which was never seen ; previous achievement of
lisp monkeys nowhere within 1%
mircea_popescu: in other ends-of-line, utc (maker of elevators) is merging its aerospace division with raytheon.
mircea_popescu: (imho minor point of little utility ; i mistly ask out of curiosity)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, is it hard to make timezone settable from www ? then can get free faux cross of page boundaries
mircea_popescu: i suspect it'll be alling in the us too. it's how socialism works, give kids parents, give kids teachers, give kids jobs...
mircea_popescu: it's what's left. first service economy, then online economy, by now...
mircea_popescu: but hey, i'm sure awareness suitably raised on the important topics. dude guaranteed "knows" about "earth sciences" "consensus" on "global warming" &c
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, kinda lulzy, jules-verne level understanding of world around. manalone in a surprising style, bereft of even basic education.
mircea_popescu: as far as i can tell legitimate traffic. wtf do i know
mircea_popescu: prolly take years for it to be surpassed, too. i guess there's that.
mircea_popescu: the extreme poverty of the contemporary ustard is only comparable to the extreme retardation of same.
mircea_popescu: "why buy oak chairs when you aren't going to do dishes ?"
mircea_popescu earlier stopped at gelateria. nicely furnished. had no table service and only paper cups. ONE SIZE. no plates, no nothing.
mircea_popescu: sounds kinda fucking stupid and in any case more expensive than just painting some sheet metal and piking it in the ground by the roadside. but then again if mechanical engineering worked like software "engineering"...
mircea_popescu: and then what, have legions of gnomes running around painting/erasing that stop sign in correct perspectives at 20fps ?
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure every single item i nthat pic was there 25 years ago also.
mircea_popescu: you seriously suspect deedbot's automated process made a mistake for him ?
mircea_popescu: bvt will have to believe this was also a ro piece years ago
mircea_popescu: bvt, just about. btw, if you feel like reimplementing that use the hash-seed method
mircea_popescu: early ro stock trading in the 90s used old commie era telexes. it was quite exciting
mircea_popescu: lol this logger's like ye olde teletype machines, feeds lines palpably
mircea_popescu: "a thirst for adventure" or how did the golden age rpg story go. a band of misfits with a thirst for adventure.
mircea_popescu: the point isn't whether "it works out" ; the point is that no old merchant from the age of sail, successful or otherwise, would've traded his life out for landlubbers'.
mircea_popescu: not that i invented it, it's what rimbaud did, it's what plenty of people've already done. not usually studied in girl school for girls, but that's entirely a diff story. and no, it doesn't usually work out.
mircea_popescu: they're about as dumb as the ukrs, honestly. place's so fucked...