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mircea_popescu: change college admission to be more like arrest, for one thing.
mircea_popescu: nope. they drag the local barristas into the campus by the hair to be raped for a weekend at a time.
mircea_popescu: same way the same exact item opened cannon fire at the "taxpayers" from atop the walls of oxford.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nytimes also didn't "picture itself in competition with the weird net kids". and so following, chuck e cheese dude's "ipad restaurant" didn't see itself in competition with phones. "it's a restaurant". no it's not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the matter was fluid in 1980. could have been.
mircea_popescu: given that a) someone was going to make a billion dollars and b) it'd have been preferable it not be gates & jobs.
mircea_popescu: phf in the sense that they were trying to sell the machines, but avoid as much of the dev work as humanly possible ?
mircea_popescu: control as the psychological construct is complicated.
mircea_popescu: his political activism later on entirely predicable on this.
mircea_popescu: i suspect he was a bureaucrat (intellectually insufficient ; aware of this ; politically ambitious) and he resented the lack of control over smarter people.
mircea_popescu: plurious agents can own the same idea in the mannger they can have the same girlfriend. knowing about it not required.
mircea_popescu: (ownership here means what it means sexually -- if she submits she's yours, woman, idea, whatever.)
mircea_popescu: it is particularily difficult to explain what one means by theft of a) ideal objects by b) parties who actually own them intellectually and c) when the objects were produced within their lifetimes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i had the same impression. social not technological issue.
mircea_popescu: phf i had the idea cadr more of a common ancestor, to smbx too.
mircea_popescu: amusingly bucharest had nfi idea at the time it COULKD have done such a thing. literally 0 conception of what any of the items we're discussing here WERE. at all. not even the priors present.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform something deeply wrong with response to mother shrieking about her daugher being fucked diverging from beating mother up / fucking her too. but... we digress.
mircea_popescu: "worst thing that can happen to smart people is an easy money source early on"
mircea_popescu: (lulz of all time, 3600 came with built-in bitcoin miner)
mircea_popescu: he's now at describing the mindbogglingly ugly hacks of how to get 32 bit fixnums out of 36 bit words with 6 bits of tag and 2 of code and so on, "oh actually the lowe order quarter can be repurposed"
mircea_popescu: and that meanwhile became quite technologically comfortable.
mircea_popescu: "oh, couldn't be done on hardware of back then". tell you what, fucking your wife also couldn't be done on your hardware of back when junior high.
mircea_popescu: whatr the fduck is he even talking about, "tagging every word". fucker, small words hardly worth tagging! make your word 4096 bits, tag THAT.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile we're introducing 4096 bit keys, and 4096 bit message sizes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform typical pc has the following situation : 64 bit registers, 128 bit memory, 1024 bit disk sectors, 64 mb video buffers, and atop sitting a drunk driver who thinks 8 bits are a byte.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because you ~never read one bit. that's the issue here, whole fucking hardware is built around nonsense. nobody reads 1 bit ; and for most applications 1 byte (ie, 64 bits!) is actually an underbyte.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how is a 1GB ram chip store the 2^30 bits ?
mircea_popescu: but this is spuriosity. let it feed out... the whole line.
mircea_popescu: now suppose i want to read some of this memory. what happens is that the controller reads A WHOLE LINE, and then selects from it the bit i wanted and spits it out.
mircea_popescu: consider if you wrote/read the disk/net/video 1mb at a time.
mircea_popescu: rather, keep the regs, gimme "page to page hdd to ram and video" ops.
mircea_popescu: it's obvious why cpu regs are "tiny" : so many lines worth putting down in gold.
mircea_popescu: no, i am asking why exactly is one item unrelated to another item married to it.
mircea_popescu: so your hdd nodes, for instrance, are... 1mb. and your ddram lines are... 1mb.
mircea_popescu: in this model they are. memory (ram, disk, whatever -- comes in pages)
mircea_popescu: let's instead say thatr we have a modern machine, with 64 bit bytes and 1mb bit pages.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, historical concept of pages seems to suggest that the relationship is exactly of the nature of "byte=octet, we're dumb".
mircea_popescu: why, again, is there a relation between cpu register bit width and memory-allocation-unit bit width ?
mircea_popescu: since we're doing this, here's a fundamental point i don't understand.
mircea_popescu: i know a bunch of imbeciles who should speak a lot more hesitatingly than this guy. such as for instance ~everyone not-white. somehow, they don't, going all the way to like obama daring to even open his mouth in public.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know it's traditionally spelled ceausescu. there's no soft c in romanian, esp not next to e.
mircea_popescu: and so on, a whole host of, centrally, the same thing. a sort of iliterate solipsism.
mircea_popescu: it's the fundamental orcism, this. expressed pluriously by the orcs now inhabiting the once-proud colonies. "you couldn't know as you haven't experienced". really, bitch ? what the fuck DO YOU THINK KNOWLEDGE EVEN IS!
mircea_popescu: "could you guess from context what the unknown word means ???"
mircea_popescu: alternatively, beer is swill to begin with, and esp the alt-flavoured sprite they sell in the us.
mircea_popescu: he likes the z80 for the same reasons in the same way. and other obsolete matter.
mircea_popescu: not that many examples of not fundamentally braindamaged computing around.
mircea_popescu: keeping sane memstructs 99% of the job i am pretty well persuaded.
mircea_popescu: worst kind of optionality. optional like woman is optional. in practice...
mircea_popescu: by all accounts he had no sex in the 70s or 80s ; but in any case had not even satisfied that minimum bar of middle class bourgeoisie of a 2nd girl somewhere.