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mircea_popescu: ie, isn't a port from system with kbd-and-mouse, but actually designed / thought into the terms of a tapdevice.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo incidentally, i often get ear popping IN THE CAR, getting down from fortress mp to civilisation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so did you get nam over with by your own self or was there a sidekick ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you're supposed to suck aircock the whole way, didn't the stewardess tell you ?
mircea_popescu: by the time you crashland you're more or less CNCd into a ball already. just like an egg that was tumbled with rocks.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, re that : i don't think most people are equipped to evaluate how much it'd suck. i base this on my own experience, whereby i didn't understand what sex in tub is like before trying.
mircea_popescu: much like marriage seems much more of an ideal state to 13yo than later on.
mircea_popescu: but yes, airflight ain't all it's cracked up to be. only seems a big deal before ape invents airplane.
mircea_popescu: anyway, administration of all kinds would be GREATLY improved by permanently losing access to all computing.
mircea_popescu opts not to ask "on arbitrary iron or on selected iron ?"
mircea_popescu remembers the good old days when berbery pirates stuck their filthy fingers up maidens' snatches snatched on the seas to probe for joolry.
mircea_popescu: the most elegant approach to deal with correctness, or acceptability w/e you state it. "there is no such thing"
mircea_popescu: not what i meant. more like "no shell()". no leaving-frame, how shall we put it
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Why exactly does a browser need to ship with any preconceived notions of how to decode video and graphics? Or audio, or text, for that matter?" << fundamentally, because we don't want to permit it to run code.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: wasn't this the whole pile at the hoster we discontinued ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thing is, i could prolly sell the girls for their quite literal weight in gold, if it came to it.
mircea_popescu: thing with gold is that it doesn't take altogether much (volume) to get a kg or two
mircea_popescu: so it turns out i own much more gold than teh proponent ?
mircea_popescu: let me put it the proper way : one can not forbid mel from using his craft ; mel can not be required to "learn fortran" to "upgrade" and "keep with the times".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the item was very much as described, ~"handwritten asm"
mircea_popescu: well, you might consider making yourself a rsa key and registering with deedbot
mircea_popescu: whenever oen tries -- it doesn't. for as long as one does not try -- "it does just fine".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform glhf. can't do such, as we've discovered, with ~anything anyway.
mircea_popescu: irene_yvonne not at the moment, but conceivably. how did you end up on it anyway ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i very honestly dun see the difference (talking here of ancient opera, not hte ipadization)
mircea_popescu: irene_yvonne be a few hours till trinque gets around to it.