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ascii_field: buncha folks spend years picking apart
the vendor's driver (mind you,
this
tells nothing about hidden functionality in
the silicon)
trinque: I'm
thinking programmable light switch with ethernet port
☟︎ ascii_field: just bringing up well-known example of
this kind of process
ascii_field: by
the
time you have something usable, chip is out of print
ascii_field: trinque: you're
talking about reverse-engineering, a la nvidia driver, xilinx (see old
thread, etc.)
trinque: ascii_field: so don't have
those people involved in
the decision
trinque: thestringpuller: I don't need
to discuss
the details of
the metaphor
thestringpuller: trinque: you ever
try removing poo from your food so its edible?
ascii_field: trinque: wake me up when
this has actually happened, anywhere, ever.
trinque: whether
they *should* care is another question
trinque: why not sell something
to
them with
the intent of removing said poo
trinque: there are plenty of people out
there
that don't give a shit about
the blobs
ascii_field: trinque: but before you can even have
this line of
thought, find a stock chipset
to which you can even port 'minix' without -any- blobs or -any- detectable dysfunction
trinque: ascii_field:
there are almost limitless
tiers of potential products between hfcs and actual food
ascii_field: selling
turd where c-machine abstraction stack continuously leaks into
the supposed 'lisp' - is pure sc4mz4tr0nix
ascii_field: trinque: and let's sell candy made from 9 parts sugar
to 1 part
turd
trinque: while we're veering
towards
the "there are no computers"
topic, what's wrong with
the idea of doing a little lisp-running raspberry pi competitor as a
toe-hold into
the computer making business?
ascii_field: when
the machines
turned 'disposable',
they stopped having, among other
things, steel skeleton
ascii_field: 'the men build,
the women inhabit' - al schwartz
mircea_popescu: there's
this
thing
that happens once something becomes "a solved problem".
mircea_popescu: i
think it's related
to advances in plastics. once
they went fully injected everyone stopped caring.
ascii_field: there was a pretty clear 'phase change' some
time around 2000
ascii_field: incidentally, and i've not seen
this observation made elsewhere, but i noticed
that laptop mechanical build quality went
to shit around
the
time
they stopped costing what a decent used car cost.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: separate problem is
that,
typically, none of
these machines had decent battery run even when
the cells were new...
ascii_field: plus
they
tend
to sit on shelves for years, and Li ion rots in storage
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i've bought 5
types or so, all crud
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no i mean
the whole shebang, in a plastic casing
to match original.
trinque: mircea_popescu: LOL,
that'll
teach me
to discuss my dreams here
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: you can get chinese replicas of any battery in large bulk << raw cells - yes.
the charge controller, with its parameter rom calibrated
to
those cells for correct discharge curve - no.
mircea_popescu: then what's all
this stuff about small penises and pigmen ?
trinque: man I dunno, I was just saying old
ThinkPads are cool
mircea_popescu: but what sort of dreams! you wouldn't even know most of
the hetairai
mircea_popescu: generally a harem ceases
to function over about 50 heads or so.
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 19:29:56;
trinque: also my harem numbers 5000 and I rule earth
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 19:25:54; ascii_field:
trinque: with a few exceptions (toshiba's miniature 'libretto' and similar) i am not particularly fond of ancient laptops -
they
tend
to be bulky and have irreparably decayed batteries
mircea_popescu: not so much because
they don't
think i could figure out a way, but for
the more obviously blunt reason
that
they correctly realise
that if i give
them a
trojan horse
they wouldn't have
the intellectual werewithal
to spot it.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the idea
that i'm not invited
to give
talks about how
to ruin bitcoin
to fucking cia is not
the worst credential ever.
ascii_field: (look at
the book catalogue
then, vs. now)
ascii_field: incidentally, (may have mentioned
this in
the past) - 'mit press' is among
the clearest possible illustrations of what happened
to american academia in past 20 yrs
mircea_popescu: at
this rate by
the end of
the year
they'll be claiming
they exist and nobody'll be buying it.
ascii_field: legitimacy-spraying
the sc4mz0rz like in every other field
mircea_popescu: anyway, lulzy
to me is
the part where
these schmucks have gone from claiming "unanimity"
three months ago
to claiming "majority" a month ago"
to claiming... parity,
today.
mike_c: ah, yes. not
to worry,
the winklevii are almost done with
that.
mike_c: i used
to enjoy marking
the bull run by when MPOE had
to update its strike prices. can we bring
that back
this year? :)
mircea_popescu: the sort of usd rain we're going
to see here has not yet seen before, and will not be seen afterwards.
ascii_field: thestringpuller: first i'd have
to dig one up myself
mircea_popescu: the catch being
that in order
to avail himself of it, he has
to give up some shard of his entrepreneurial delusion, and instead buckle down and work like a honest man.
mike_c: investors in US follow silicon valley like
the midwest follows new york fashion. Now
that
they are pouring money into
these startups, it could be a feeding frenzy kind of year.
mircea_popescu: it's very weird,
this psychology of
the failed entrepreneur. he comes here with a 100 btc problem, is given a solution
that can and historically has covered 1000s.\
thestringpuller: ascii_field:
that's cause you wouldn't give her duffle of benjies!
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 16:38:37; wangxinxi: mircea_popescu it’s possible
to hedge. but it seems not very liquid. so it’s a bit difficult in practice.
mike_c: i
think she went broke..
ascii_field: just pointing out
that we've not
taken berlin yet.
ascii_field: when usg officials start vanishing from
the stage because no longer can pay bills, rather
than folks like moiety disappearing from our ranks -
then we know, yes, victory
assbot: Logged on 11-03-2015 16:32:19; pete_dushenski: “following
the humiliating CFTC episode, Blythe [Masters] disappeared completely from
the public radar. Now, with a one year delay, she has finally reappeared… re-emerged as chief executive of
the Bitcoin startup, Digital Asset Holdings.”
mircea_popescu: always
the impotence is
the issue, never
the neurosis attendant.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
the humiliation
that 112mn is
trying
to assuage and can never be assuaged is
the issue.
ascii_field: what does printing an extra 112m cost
them?
ascii_field: if
they're feeling pain, it's a secret from me
mircea_popescu: ascii_field anyway,
this scurrying
to coinbase and mysterymeat is a good indicator of a) how painful
the crushing of shitvin shitdressen was and b) how scary #bitcoin-terrorists actually is.
ascii_field: nobody in usa gets
to so much as look with one eye at 112mil usd without a gauleiter reviewing it
mircea_popescu: very smart. by
this reading,
the grime on
these peoples' bathtubs is like a mouse : almost a life form, and one
that didn't go extinct, either.
mircea_popescu: so a
thing
that did no work is actually compared
to
the few
things
that did work selected out of
the large set of
things
that also did work by
the criteria
that
they survived ?
davout: my read on 21 is "some bitcoin noob
that happens
to be fiat rich rounded a couple of other rich buddies, and wants
to fix bitcoin"
mike_c: 21 inc is
the new $116 million startup
ascii_field: so
they're moving on
to, well,
the actual game.
ascii_field: the buggers got
the message
that purely spreadshit-based shenanigans don't have
the desired 'bang'
ascii_field: expect also
to see 'siliconized' versions of gavincoin sold at massive discount and 'dropped from airplane' etc
ascii_field: 116mil 'mystery startup' << expect
to see $maxint of
this. usg will build malicious 'wallets' and other mainstreamadoptatron crap for all-comers
mike_c: their working on
the pogo build!
mike_c: "He compares 21’s work in building bitcoin products for
the general public
to
the sequential development of 56-kilobit Internet modems, international fiber cables and wireless Internet
towers, which all helped bring
the Internet into people’s homes in
the late 1990s."
danielpbarron: probably a good
thing; anything worth using should probably only be coded on a setup similar
to what i've heard asciilifeform describe
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: i can't code in ssh
terminal on iphone
tho unfortunately.
danielpbarron: i don't recommend getting a iphone strictly for
this purpose
though; it's just a nice bonus if you already have one
danielpbarron: i've kept up with some very fast paced arguments using only my
thumbs
nubbins`: speaking of kobo, i should charge
that
thing
nubbins`: i only yesterday
tried
this, no joke
ascii_field: best cure is
to obtain, e.g., 'amazon kindle', jailbreak, enlinuxate, and actually
try it