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mircea_popescu: but last night's fairytales inform
this morning's breakfast design!
mircea_popescu: or
the foundation. or everywhere you
turn in
the 70s literate production.
mircea_popescu: Ask him why he
thinks he should be able
to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc, just because he wants “speed”. << "i asked him, he shrugged his shoulders and went 'well, at least my machine won't fucking
take over
the world.'"
mircea_popescu: this may
then explain "insane" choices such as boggle naggum.
mircea_popescu: it's certainly evident in period napkin notations (because yes, stuff like asimov's productions are "the napkin doodles of scientific work") ; and strictly speaking
there is exactly no difference between "sentient machine" and "metastable strange".
that's exactly what sentience fucking is, metastable strange.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-15 05:31 mircea_popescu: what's not being discussed is
the problem of space debris. but yes, unsurprisingly enough and predictably enough
the end result of "people can now go
to space" was "earth now looks like a ball of burata looks once
the mold can '''go
to space'''. ie, surrounded by a skirting of debris,"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-15#1880894 <<
thinking of
this and
the whole sns/hp nonstop etc
thing : i suspect a large chunk of
the way
things went may be driven by a (naive, and not necessarily spoken) "what if machine becomes sentient and you cant'
turn it off" phobia.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: this whole "mate within age group"
thing
the anglos got going is really hurting
them.
BingoBoingo: Damn "passed
time"
time stamping.
Though for a second
there was a 51 year old cuck involved
mircea_popescu: not 10%. >90% of
them about evenly split between
the indolent imbecility of silence and aggressive stupidity of
the "wut".
mircea_popescu: (you don't have detectors
that fine, you'll get 8 months' worth of noise. but anyway.)
mircea_popescu: yeah,
totally what you want is 8 months sunbathing for your bolix.
mircea_popescu: right ? buncha moron/anal princesses discovered
the ultimate precious stones.
mircea_popescu: it's a
thing. when you're going "meh, ima use a dental kit" you're being one kinda lulzy. when you're going "a-ha, ima make xray out of old
tv
tube and camera sensor" you're being ANOTHER kind.
mircea_popescu: there's also
the what
to discard, what not
to have in
there at all (yes
there's such a
thing as xray mirror, also some plastics are no good, and so on).
mircea_popescu: do me a favour and read "x ray hygiene" as a
thing, it's not a one liner.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-15 05:39 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-14#1880861 << incidentally, if and when
this pays off (which i suspect it will), shall be lulzy
to see
the "oh, didn't happen, we did it first bla bla bla" morons.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-15 00:35 asciilifeform: incidentally, i had potentially interesting notion: a modern-day digicam ccd, of e.g. 25 'megapixel', is just about dense enuff
that one could
take a meaningful xray of
the ivory die, if one could be found
that responds
to xray..
a111: Logged on 2018-12-14 22:58 asciilifeform: ( didn't exist ~5y ago when i last contemplated doing all of
this )
a111: Logged on 2018-12-14 22:53 asciilifeform: ( and really dun need dram at all,
the drams on
the daughterboard are all connected
through period auto-refresher ic
that presents as a sram )
a111: Logged on 2018-12-14 22:49 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'ma prolly end up xraying with own hands, i dun
trust heathen derps with
the jools
mircea_popescu: because "people" aren't a
thing, it's a catchall phrase including anything and everything, and mostly nothing by mass.
mircea_popescu: what's not being discussed is
the problem of space debris. but yes, unsurprisingly enough and predictably enough
the end result of "people can now go
to space" was "earth now looks like a ball of burata looks once
the mold can '''go
to space'''. ie, surrounded by a skirting of debris,"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it all started with
the gps --
there, MUST have multiple sats for multiple positions. but "if
there -- everywhere", so now
the method is "just launch seven".
a111: Logged on 2018-12-14 19:33 asciilifeform: reportedly items like
this are being orbited , as cost-saving measure in place of ye olde saphire semiconductors. but
there's ~nuffin publicly written re just how built.
danielpbarron: yeah, darwin split from grace comminity baptist, and al soto split from darwin's
thing
danielpbarron: huh? i am part of "a
true church" -- idk where you got
the idea i left
danielpbarron: the idea
that Christ died only for
the elect, rather
than for
the entire world
danielpbarron: but calvinism promotes
the false doctrine of limited attonement
phf: yeah,
the scsi/solidstate adapter exists, is actively used for "retro hardware"
phf: you know if ivory on macivory actually replaceable,
the way it is on xl?
phf: so you want
to make a replica
that plugs into same hardware? i
thought you'd want
to do a fake mac harnes first?
a111: Logged on 2018-12-13 18:53 asciilifeform: 1st logical step , on
the magic day when asciilifeform has both pcb layout and GAL contents nailed down, will prolly be
to make an exact physical copy of
the board.
phf: well, you'll still have
to xray some, because i barely have anything on macivory, but i'll go over
the scans
this weekend. i actually have (miracle of miracles) free weekend coming up
phf: i still remember one of
the cobol guys pulling out random bits from it on day one and going "i can just pull a bunch of
things and it keeps working"
phf: well, i appreciated it in
theory, didn't have enough active drive
to grok it, nor
the necessary background
phf: asciilifeform: i worked on
tandem for a bit (known by
then as HP NonStop), i appreciated
the architecture, but entire software stack was cobol