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mircea_popescu: anyway, tbh /me regards the lathe as the definitive item. for the obvious reason : lathe can build milling machine way the fuck easier than the other way around
mircea_popescu: not even fucking expensive. course it's 380 so you'll have to get that
mircea_popescu: o look, you can actually buy the modern version. same maker. Arad SN 401, 2,5 tons, 7.5kW, made 1987.
mircea_popescu: and with a well compressed, angry item like the z80, there's plenty of such "accidentally caught glimpse of santa naked" events
mircea_popescu: incidentally, it's this type of thing that makes it good. kid's eternal interest, once he gets out of learning his mom's language, is figuring out THE SECRET of dad's tools.
mircea_popescu: problem of temperatures etc. if you keep it small sure, but as it grows gets more energy... not so good, leadcooked duck.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah but at larger distance / larger size it kinda taints the meat.
mircea_popescu: im not so certain of that ; most plowing happens happily with plows the ploughsmen could not replicate.
mircea_popescu: yeah, so if you actually do tungsten steel shot for duck, you want like 100.
mircea_popescu: (z80 thing when reset will munge the "videocard" such as it is, resulting in a pattern brieflydisplaying)
☟︎ mircea_popescu once spent hours pushing the reset button trying to figure out the pattern on the screen
mircea_popescu: not so different then from "first loads kernel, then here's your terminal"
mircea_popescu: that is after all the point, neh, to somehow get as large a headcount as possible through the various gates (born, college, credit cards, mortgage, retirement hgome etc) WITHOUT "harming the environment" which in any practical sesne means... without changing anything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ecological item-unit, can be stored in the wall and "keep happy" large population of... well...
mircea_popescu: for the pantsuit, the fact that it will soak up with no change or other effect all the time/effort/cyckles etc you put into it IS A SELLING POINT.
mircea_popescu: consider : what makes a bad penis ? that you can rub it all you want and STILL it won't spit out. but what makes a good cunt ? that you can pound it all you want and STILL it won't in any way change.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at some point they came out with a 90minute tape, kicked all ass.
mircea_popescu: well i think i'd have scrounged together the two bux for a RAKS blank before i spent two days typing in
mircea_popescu: you also had to buy the casette tapes, so often we didn't bother, just kept trading like a sort of library service.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, perhaps there's something to alf's hope, in point of fact the criteria was very much "but can't poke the code". that you had to buy cartridges didn't even necessarily land, because evidently if you had some and your friends had some you couldn't play them all at the same time.
mircea_popescu: the notion that they ALSO do butt things came as a much later discovery, and unsurprising! and not even germane. the core still remained the "wtf is this dumb shit" musical taste.
mircea_popescu: (first, and for many years ONLY meaning i had for "faggot" ie "homalau" in ro was... "actually listens to depeche mode")
mircea_popescu: the despisement such heresy enjoyed in little mp's circle was only matched by the sort of folk that'd listen to depeche mode.
mircea_popescu: for ~everyone, only bedwetting pussies had whatever you called those non-computer gamestation things
mircea_popescu: that thing was kinda ended / in any case ending by 1920s.
mircea_popescu: (decryption key : pregnant woman = cocksucker that didn't)
mircea_popescu: because 6yo will speak whatever the cocksucker that didn't speaks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, what's needed is what's needed ; not up to me.
mircea_popescu: item knew no competitor ; "unfathomable luxury" means that it was MAGIC, outright, plain and simple and spread on bread ; not "this is the shitty thing dad makes me fuck with because he hates me"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the problem is that IT WAS THE PEAK. go, re-make that, if you can.
mircea_popescu: i was gonna say "yeah but through masturbation not computation" but then i abstained.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't supposed to "do too much" because "ruin eyes".
mircea_popescu: right. in other words : let the kid eat the fucking berries, and if it kills him fuck him ; and fuck you too so you get another one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! and they did this dance, six cats dancing if you did really well. drove my sister up the wall
mircea_popescu: incidentally mod6 : when you say #6 is it like 300 pellet load or like 200 pellet load ? apparently eu and us terminology manages to differ on one more thing
mircea_popescu: it got my mom off gaming for life ; at first she was kinda into it, but then lost track and burned a steak. got so pissed off she swore off gaminf forever! and stuck to it.
mircea_popescu: aha! that was my 2nd i think ; after the jumping jack one