asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where was this - zimbabwe ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: somebody else's glasses, within 10% or so, are, i suppose - better than none

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: his nailgun must've had empty clip.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu goodnight

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not the one i was thinking of, bus similar concept.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: handily inside thermal drift range then.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu bakes own NICs ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually i first learned of this when studying the demise of american tv makers.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no idea about 'super', but these are ubiquitous in the radio industry.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is actually a traditional means of generating 'hardware entropy' on a pc. i rediscovered it as a kid, thought i 'had something nice'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most obvious explanation is clocks.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: describe briefly the geometry of the wire.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sure. symbionts. now engineer some...

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thermodynamics concerns the inevitable, rather the immediate. e.g., the japanese prolonged holdout against gunpowder.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu didn't have 'grep' before ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nsa-sponsored attempt to survive << they won't really worry until wintel stops being a thing.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nsa 'expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are published recipes for this. see 'multi-party computation' literature.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: probably some crackpot m-of-n scheme again

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bek ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://youtu.be/rR56uNg2XQs?t=2m43s << finally found the ancient cartoon with the schooltard who zaps all of history so he doesn't have to pass exam.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to be fair, the machine (as described originally by r. feynman) doesn't divine history a la asimov's 'chronoscope', but merely computes certain classes of function unusually cheaply.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/big-numbers-random-numbers-and-whos-got-your-number/ << 'random-looking number' is reminiscent of the 'miasma theory' of disease causation. in fact, much of what presently passes for 'seekoority' is quite like miasma epidemiology. crock of shit, resulting not only from inability, but from unwillingness to to even contemplate cause-effect.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...died from an infection in 2010... << the rate at which these people die of preventable causes is ridiculous' << quite likely, that fellow really died of - sleep deprivation. compromised immune system. and yes, one wouldn't expect an actual 'master of the universe' to succumb to sleep deprivation. senior bureaucrats, on the other hand - sure.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Theodore Y. Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means << 'random' is simply a non-scientific qualifier. like 'big'.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not sure how similar to your girl, but all i could think of in that lecture was 'why no one humanely shoots this broken horse?'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i spoke to other people from that time, and they remember her. from other lectures.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i didn't know any better, i'd imagine we went to uni together. we had 'the same' chick! she bedeviled our number theory prof with at least a hundred very boneheaded questions every lecture. he seethed, boiled, but couldn't throw her out. why? 'registered special needs.' (going for math degree!) she even got unlimited time on exams. ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mocsny had other interesting quirks. he was, for instance, ideologically opposed to driving car (pollution!)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: women also aren't food - but the proverbial airplane crash castaway might beg to differ.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i misunderstand, you're trying to say to a fellow in padded cell, 'stop banging head.' generally good advice - except that sex drive doesn't ship with an 'off' switch.

asciilifeform: the notion that every male of the species can turn into mircea_popescu by effort of will is, at the very least, misguided. i catch quite a bit of crap for insisting that virtually everyone can, e.g., learn mathematics - so i sympathize. but it's still mistake.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's almost like you read a guide to survival in the arctic, and said 'wtf is this nonsense, just take compass and march south'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'a chicken also wants to live'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you're not in the market for a trambourghini, either, as i understand.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, he was discussing why the robots are inevitable from a market standpoint (there are quite a few paupers, and they all want wheels. so we get trambourghini.)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mocsny wasn't pushing for mixed footraces, so much as torturing some bozo who was obsessed with the 'injustice of exclusion'