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mircea_popescu: lol. eh, i got some of
those kitten scratcher
things, can drill microholes on
the cheap.
mircea_popescu: that is HOW
the
thickness of
the sheet protects you from neutrons --
the
thicker
the sheet,
the lower
the loss into you. because
that power law.
mircea_popescu: same would be
true of electrons,
too, except for
the braking, which makes 99.x% of
the energy of
those NOT energetic enough
to go
through...
take your picture.
mircea_popescu: if
there's one meter of steel and
two meters of you, 99.x% of all neutrons energetic enough
to go
through
the sheet will ALSO be energetic enough
to go
through you
mircea_popescu: but all
the classical films include "bottom of
this here mountain" because do
the math, one single electron can produce enough gamma
to fry an egg
mircea_popescu: you can afford
to make plate
thick enough
to neuter
those.
mircea_popescu: (ie, you are MORE likely
to die for being behind sheet lead/steel/whatever
than not. because high energy electron won't hurt you at all -- or even see you -- but
the
tons of gamma it spews as
the metal plate decelerates it WILL fucking fry you)\
mircea_popescu: (likbez : problem with nuclear shelter is
that Bremsstrahlung. but with
this... well... make it go away)
mircea_popescu: one day my car mechanic is going
to come into
this room, pour a quart of oil into
the box, and make a whole new os
this way.
mircea_popescu: this is worse
than "czech glass, dummy. if you polish it like-so.." ftr. much, much worse.
mircea_popescu: i'm
totally like one of
those old war veterans upon hearing of new weapon
mircea_popescu: drill and polish, i'd say, rather
than etch. smoother holes
this way\
mircea_popescu: right because discontinuous media is
THE metamaterial for matter-wave interaction.
mircea_popescu: only works on specified x-ray, i expect ? not exactly "lens" in
the broad sense.
mircea_popescu: don't
tell me "czech glass, dummy. if you polish it like-so.."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can i has link
to
the story in question for completeness btw ?
mircea_popescu: like all crystalline mindmatter -- it grows on ya over
time :D
mircea_popescu: i guess one doesn't strictly speaking need it for
trophycase/tchotchkecase/whatever, give
the slavegirls something
to do, dust it biweekly. however books get infected.
mircea_popescu: in lighter news, diana_coman 's latest suggests
the last indisputable use for
the bookshelf.
mircea_popescu: fucking "localized keyboards".
that's what i fucking need in
the 90s, "let's make computers useful and accessible
to
the bureaucracy!" "imagine mp, vast fields of fat minnesota cows derping on
the computer all day long!"
mircea_popescu: they do. it's what
they fucking are, first
to last, and fuck
them all for being so fucking stupid. "oh, mit forced". nobody fucking forced
them,
they betrayed
their kind because of what
they are.
mircea_popescu: we can
talk of power rangers in bitcoin because
they got fucking squashed. but nobody before
thought "o hey, you know what knight, stallman, richie etc ALL have in common ?! FUCKING POWER RANGERS JESUS FUCK."
mircea_popescu: fucktarded socialists hijacking computing for
their own ends. just like
they
tried
to hijack bitcoin, because
that's what
they fucking do, sit around all day
trying
to come up with some way
to
tie
the sun
to
their chariot.
mircea_popescu: what, i ask you, WHAT is a worse stain
than having spent a minute on
the needs of
the poor ?
they're fucking poor for a reason! step on
their faces,
there's rich people
that you could be helping instead.
mircea_popescu: fucking get it already -- if you work with
the monkeys people will spit in your eye.
mircea_popescu: ie, EXACTLY
these dead horses smart people are dragging around on
their own fucking power
to sheer exhaustion.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-04-09 23:14 mircea_popescu: "who do you
think will win, mr 13,
the
team with
two guys and monkeys or
the
team with
three guys and monkeys ?"
a111: Logged on 2017-04-09 22:03 asciilifeform: most of
the heavy lifting was done by a dozen or so people, however. (david moon, richard greenblatt,
tom knight, buncha smaller ones )
a111: Logged on 2019-01-03 19:24 stratum: Right now, for
the billions, I
think it is probably better
than nothing, just like easily popped household locks.
mircea_popescu: computers were supposed
to be intelligence amplifiers,
these devices
that make
the smart ~more effectual~.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-04 13:21 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: all
the race horses are dead. and we race , if you will, while dragging
the carcasses around. so i prefer
to go with
the smallest when possible.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yes, and
the smallest ones also don't yeild much glue when boiled
BingoBoingo: Well yes, when all
the race horses got
tumors...
a111: Logged on 2019-01-04 12:26 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-04#1884340 << point. i suspect
that a good chunk of
the interest in old irons is driven by
the sheer unfathomable depth of retardation of 'modern' comp
a111: Logged on 2019-01-04 02:28 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
TBF a lot of weird looks good when
the alternatives are Windows, Lunix, and ManzanaBSD
a111: Logged on 2019-01-02 20:15 diana_coman:
trinque, how's it going with getting
the Cuntoo .vpatch in fixed shape?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
TBF a lot of weird looks good when
the alternatives are Windows, Lunix, and ManzanaBSD
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-01-04 01:15 asciilifeform: it aint
that much good without
the iron, but i would like
the
thing publicly gettable, given as i also baked a 'scsi2sd' config
that eats
the
thing