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mircea_popescu: how do you add deuterium inside
the core ? with an enema pump ?
decimation: right,
the 'fissile' bomb runs out of fissile material
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform has
the hand of man enabled
the disabled cores in an intel chip ?
Adlai: thestringpuller: overall
though i liked
the bip65 article, it was worded neutrally enough
that it could almost be
tagged 'News'
decimation: I suppose
the idea
that
the 'standard grunt' is snaking up on someone is unlikely
mircea_popescu: decimation swat /
town warfare
teams use supressed weapons
BingoBoingo: <decimation> are you saying
that you can't use a silencer and a sub-sonic round? << Range and
terminal energy at
the
target become huge problems
this way
decimation: yeah I agree
they aren't 100% silent, but
the advantages of silence seem
to be large
mircea_popescu: just
think,
the promise of
the electric car married
to
the promise of
the fusion battery
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the next logical bezzle step is a
tesla-lockheed merger
decimation: are you saying
that you can't use a silencer and a sub-sonic round?
Adlai: "TLA is a
three-letter-acronym for
three-letter-acronyms." << i'd go as far as/cronyms/gencies/
decimation: actually
this brings up a good point, why aren't 'silent guns' more popular in military circles
decimation: Something you could give
to a grunt
to replace his rifle
Adlai: well, short of satoshi acting in a
tla-ish manner, perhaps due
to belonging
to a
tla himself
decimation: but
that wasn't really a man-portable system
mircea_popescu: decimation you're late.
the first military laser IS co2, uv.
decimation: I suspect
the first 'military laser' will be infrared
Adlai: max paranoia = starting around april 2010, at least one
tla began stockpiling coins
decimation: right, one
that
transmits somewhere in
the visible spectrum (to humans)
mircea_popescu: not like military grade laser will be like in star
trek
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 00:41:00; asciilifeform: because it is
the only one which existed upon
the earth before bitcoin was valuable!
decimation: I imagine
there's going
to have
to be some kind of visible protocol, otherwise
the enemy would simply be confused about what's going on
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> what next, laser musketry volley? <<< srsly. what's
this supression fire, like laser welding ?
decimation: I suspect
that fusion-powered robots will be doing most of
the fighting anyway
decimation: qntra is dead, but
trilmea just popped up again
decimation: imagine 'future war' where your squad as a 'laser machine gun'. In order
to
take
the next hill, you need
to lay down suppressing fire.
the laser machine gunner opens up, and
the enemy doesn't notice
decimation: 'this' being
the current state of computing?
Adlai: thestringpuller: BIP65 article, link
to CTransaction::nLockTime
thestringpuller: Adlai: i can't see
the article yet so I can't answer
the question
decimation: qntra.net is down for me now,
trilema
too
Adlai is
talking about "<span class="spell _uwb">Did you mean:</span> <a class="spell" href="/search?espv=2&q=recursion&spell=1"><b><i>recursion</i></b></a> "
Adlai: hm, no link
to
the google results page?
mircea_popescu: climbing a mountain versus diving in a septic
tank sort of hard.
decimation: well,
the systems were small enough
to 'fit in
the head' as ascii might say
mircea_popescu: perhaps because asm hard is
the proper sort of hard. whereas dependency hell and library cruft is
the horribly bad sort of hard.
mircea_popescu: anyway, maybe
their lives were harder, but 1960s programmers certainly seem happier.
mircea_popescu: i don't even
think code as
tight can still be made, much like you can't have a proper boot made anymore, and hardly a proper suit of clothes.
mircea_popescu: i have NEVER and I do mean NEVER saw programs as good as bacxk in
the days of asm.
mircea_popescu: And
the lives of programmers were hard, and
the case of
their end-users miserable; for, strive as
the programmers might, perfection was achieved only in
toy programs while in real-world systems
the defect rate was nigh-intolerable. And
there was much wailing and gnashing of
teeth.
mircea_popescu: In
the beginning
there was assembler. And programming was hard.
The semantic gap between how humans
think about problems and what we knew how
to
tell computers
to do was vast; our ability
to manage complexity was deficient. And in
the gap software defects did flourish, multiplying in direct proportion
to
the size of
the programs we wrote.
fivezerotwo: assbot, well it was
taking a while
to respond here
fivezerotwo: have fun figuring out what
this attack is ^_^
fivezerotwo: hello again. so assbot appears
to be hosted on
this server, interesting
joecool: BingoBoingo: looks same as mine except i have a ??? between
the last
two
mircea_popescu: decimation
this sporadic working no working would seem
to mean route.
joecool: lets
try some other countries
Adlai: lizard nazis probing
the
turmite colony's readership habits