asciilifeform: it never quite made sense to me, from my admittedly distant and dark perch, why lizard hitler ~not~ yet dared. it ain't as if he'd have to eat the lead himself.
asciilifeform: i suspect that main enemy of mircea_popescu's weapons systems is tropical damp, rust. the other enemy seems to prefer 'soft' liquishit to actual action, for whatever reason.
asciilifeform: shinohai: lulzy, but seems to be rerun ( or was there a piece recently entirely like this one, but with differently named muppet )
asciilifeform likes to go to , watch , these parades, they are held every year not so far from where asciilifeform lives
asciilifeform: the ones seen at parades -- old. but i suspect they dun much vroom, or otherwise the statistic would do its work neh
asciilifeform: that's what being old does. errything inside is old.
asciilifeform: and likewise all the things he undeplored
asciilifeform: with the degree of magnitude faster/more capacitous comp , it is ~stupidity~, in the form of complexicrud, that accumulates fatally. and , worst of all, dijkstra knew this
asciilifeform: as it is, there is very little for it in his article to stand up on
asciilifeform: difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. dijkstra imho oughta have mentioned the cable, to stand up his argument
asciilifeform: entirely different physical effects ( and exacerbated by the pitiful insulation of the period ) over the distance involved.
asciilifeform: cable, at astonishing expense, was laid; and soon afterwards destroyed by overvoltaging. the operators had nfi that impedance exists, 'book larnin'', and were not satisfied with ~1 baud signal rate , upped the volts...
asciilifeform: the cable was destroyed as a result of a very typically 'anglotard' chain of errors; entirely like the microcomp
asciilifeform: imho better analogy is what happened to telegraphers. recall the fate of the first transatlantic cable ?
asciilifeform: hey trinque -- when's the last time wot.deedbot.org db was regenned ? for instance it still dun show asciilifeform's rating for diana_coman
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly d00d did not trust himself to not even further betray principles when he's in the nato prison and hanging upside down
asciilifeform: hey ben_vulpes , wasn't veen one of yer patients ?
asciilifeform: and this is the charitable interpretation.
asciilifeform: this would appear to be the problem, RagnarDanneskjol , you are apparently unable to distinguish 'ornament' from function
asciilifeform: you could have had an actual product, instead of the empty rubbish www
asciilifeform: here's what i dungetatall, RagnarDanneskjol : why you never showed up here with the sane-wallets thing ? there are folx who are interested , could have worked with you
