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mircea_popescu: they came up with "smart phones" ? fuck
them, i never upgraded, i still use actual phones. samsung is jumping over backwards
to supply
the market.
they cost nothing. etc.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> people didn't use
to upgrade worth a shit not even a decade ago, when all
the incentives were alligned for
them
to. << What happened was Microsoft's "Let's mimic
the Auto Industries idea of
the Model Year" won even if MS could not execute on it
mircea_popescu: but
that ended a few years back, and "upgrade" is headed right into
the "please install our browser
toolbar extension" and "act now!" bin.
mircea_popescu: people didn't use
to upgrade worth a shit not even a decade ago, when all
the incentives were alligned for
them
to.
mircea_popescu: this idea
that "we'll gavin all over
the blockchain
technology and everyone will follow" is out of a holywood movie. not how reality works.
mircea_popescu: half a cent a pill, indian factories dedicated
to its preservation in amber.
mircea_popescu: wake me up sometime when i care. i've been using sulfmetoxazole forever, and i intend
to continue.
mircea_popescu: fuck, for
that matter,
this
thing is universal. so
the us only makes "high performance" bullshit antibiotics of doom
these days ?
BingoBoingo: If I sound grumpy, it is only because I have come across
too many idiots of
the "it can't be done" persuasion lately,
the kind of managers who have an aquarium in
their office because fifteen brains
think better
than one.
mircea_popescu: so you get
twice
the clock, and i get
two of
them. sure,
there are SOME problems
that are provably unsplittable.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's a fine
theory an' all, but i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am at
this very moment running a 64 GB amd-a8 quad.
mircea_popescu: if he doesn't do worse
than you,
that's a prime signal
that you're insane.
mircea_popescu: seems 1905 steel girder bridges still work just fine, and yes you can do anything you want done on 486s. heck, it's always been cheaper
to buy last year's
tech and buy a lot of it and network it
than it is
to buy
the monolithic "custom made"
tool.
mircea_popescu: you don't HAVE
TO update anything, and if it sucks you don't update.
mircea_popescu: every step of
the way of
technology is sound and can be rested upon.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the issue should be addressed irrespective of how obnoxious X kiddo is.
undata: asciilifeform: oh I don't know,
the others don't look particularly hospitable
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depends which.
the oil prospectors
that make money do.
mircea_popescu: if
the problem exists it's a prime indicator you're wasting your life.
mircea_popescu: so... if what you do is a good idea,
this sort of problem can't possibly exists.
mircea_popescu: i somehow doubt
they actually use poettering stuff either, but what do i know
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so basically you're running your own metal which you don't want
to colo because you figure it's actually cheaper in your own house sort of
thing ?
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said afore, " you'd have
to be insane
to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have
the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit"
mircea_popescu: now suppose
the major cost of
the icecream
truck wasn't icecream, but... windshield wiper.
mircea_popescu: but both of
these make sense from a business perspective.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and actually renting stuff like amzon offers is not cheaper
than what you're currently doing ?!
mircea_popescu: but you see how from a business perspective
this makes no sense ?
the hardware's
the biggest cost. in any and all dcs ever since
the world begun.
mircea_popescu: there is a lot
terribly wrong with
the picture you paint. i've yet
to see
this wonder where support costs more
than
the hardware.
mircea_popescu: here's a
thought :
two $10 old cpus are faster
than a $50 modern cpu.
mircea_popescu: anyway, entertain me here. so what happens if you use 2010 hardware with older linux instals is
that what, your shit moves slower ?
mircea_popescu: somehow i imagine what
the us agency of redhat is
trying
to solve is exactly your problem,
mircea_popescu: poettering should be good news for you
then - soon enough you won't need an emulator at all.)
mircea_popescu: (kinda weird how
the "stuck with windowsy linux" discussion denegerated into a "because i need
to run windows".
mircea_popescu: i just never ran into
this sort of edge myself. i guess count it as a blessing an' move on.
mircea_popescu: well
this sounds like a fucking curse on
the level of, "must have sex in my car
trunk, no matter what"
mircea_popescu: and you gotta run
the winblows in an emulator on a physical laptop ?
mircea_popescu: something's amiss with
this picture
tho. i find it hard
to believe
that you need a lot of computing
that is a) physically in your lap and b) exactly fits within
the seeming arbitrary constriction of "what 2014 laptops allow"
mircea_popescu: im not sure why you want
to run 2014 hw at all. but whatever, maybe i don't do enough hi res porn conversion on a laptop
to care ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> on account of my profession, i occasionally do
things like booting up winblows in an emulator. << actually last i did
that it was on... ubuntu!
mircea_popescu: finding a fucking nat router
that's not backdoored by design is a fucking hassle as it is.
mircea_popescu: it's not like simply ignoring pottering forces one
to any sort of anything. so you run 2005 linux on 2010 hardware. you probably don't want
the modern crapolade for any serious purpose anyway,
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mircea_popescu: no but look, linux only went braindamaged
this decade.
mircea_popescu: the cpu instruction set changed or something ? it's
the same
thing.
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm missing something here, but, why do you
think you can't run "max" whatever
they are on older debians ?
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midnightmagic backs slowly away and maybe should've read back further
than one 24-line screenful
midnightmagic: it has an fpga onboard, (almost) no firmware except perhaps for
the sdd. it's free-ish
jurov: mircea has slaves
to carry boxen around
mircea_popescu: i can't even be bothered
to count all
the ways
that's stupid. wtf.
mircea_popescu: and who
the fuck
takes any electronics from
their job is so stupid shouldn't get
to live anyway.
mircea_popescu: uh. if you have servers you'd have
to be insane
to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have
the fucking dc handle it if you don't give a shit.