asciilifeform: prolly yea

asciilifeform: troo: i have nfi what kw-hour would cost in e.g. a china that goes full-bore su-style fission buildout

asciilifeform: not so cheap that anybody's fischer-tropsching his way into cornism

asciilifeform: for the chemicrud

asciilifeform: whole thing is standing on cheap petro tho

asciilifeform: petro supply falls ? as good as nukefest.

asciilifeform: it was always -ev, simply not on short enuff time scale. ☟︎

asciilifeform: they... do. simply takes a while.

asciilifeform: for gedankenexperiment, mircea_popescu , what would 'cracked' look like ?

asciilifeform: ^ aha i immediately thought of it

asciilifeform: oh hey neato

asciilifeform: ( ports are in all the wrong places, and no room for any cabling, ditto heat spreaders )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759406 << guaranteed no-go. it's rather like trying to sew a squirrel into a rat skin and expect it to live happily as rat. ☝︎

asciilifeform: no serfs, no castle, eh

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha!!

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759388 << see also lulthread >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-24#1703064 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: nuffin there re noncrapple tho

asciilifeform: but that dun solve whole item.

asciilifeform: i'ma certainly patronize castle BingoBoingostein tho

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i am looking to set up a handful of trb nodez 1) small, 'disposable' boxen 2) for fiatolade 3) with decent , i.e. at least 100mb symmetric ea. 4) NOT all in same cage

asciilifeform: pretty slow rapetruck... ( is the rape phree if the truck is late ? like american pizza in 1980s )

asciilifeform: ( they must've asked buffett... )

asciilifeform: 'Real price of bitcoin could be $0.00, warns Morgan Stanley' << didjaknow.

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/fowAf << from samerag, moarlulz

asciilifeform: shinohai: can haz not-videoturd ??

asciilifeform: ( much has been written on subj of how post-mongol ru continued same administrative style etc. there's sumthing to it. )

asciilifeform: nao this, is so.

asciilifeform: if not , then 0 agency, like corpse. and fat will be rendered

asciilifeform: it is if you have a stalin, i.e. a firm power vertical.

asciilifeform: re t cell -- not all parasites are perceptible. point was that stealth is not the only strategy used by parasite

asciilifeform: ww2 wasn't exactly a voluntary transaction

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759338 << dog very much perceives the flea. just like zek perceives the louse. but what exactly is he to do? either of them. ☝︎

asciilifeform: the inheriting of the master's house by a gaggle of idjits , former bootlicks, was a palpable thing, and with palpable consequences incl. the cn split.

asciilifeform: can debate styles of management , etc. but for instance stalin did not sell natural resources. successors -- sold. even today, ru runs 100% 'on the pipe', like saud

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how's that

asciilifeform bbl,meat

asciilifeform: !~later tell BingoBoingo where was that hoster that'll host peculiarly small boxes , that you were using back in the day ? i have a buncha http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-19#1754247 that fit exactly those dimensions ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: wasn't, even in 2012.

asciilifeform: none of it, i suspect, was ever needed.

asciilifeform: and, observe, this was without any such prbisms as 'headers-first'ism etc.

asciilifeform: neato!

asciilifeform: ( with 'aggression' )

asciilifeform: in related noose, zoolag covered ~20k blox in 4days. and looks set to fully sync by tomorrow morning.

asciilifeform: ( is what 'wires' came out of )

asciilifeform: that's even worse. if my nodes were failing to give EACH OTHER their best known blocks, i'd skin'em alive until found why

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in an apparent imitation of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749817 : http://destery.info/cidal/mpex-bitcoin-nupe.php <<< aaaaand, very similarly, returns ENTIRELY different turd to archive.is. orig. screenshitted, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mpex_flavoured_spamola.jpg for posterity. ☝︎

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: !!up l0de

asciilifeform: no prizes for guessing what ain't in there, lol ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other vintage heathen lulz, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin apparently.

asciilifeform: !!up toohigh

asciilifeform: phf: neato.

asciilifeform: ^ burgomeister of leipzig. apr 20, 1945.

asciilifeform: BigTexasBingo: ever seen this photo : https://s00.yaplakal.com/pics/pics_original/0/6/6/5346660.jpg ?

asciilifeform: phf: evidently

asciilifeform: BigTexasBingo: the art of 'drowning like a gentleman', i.e. to behave honourably and with grace in the face of certain defeat, death, obscurity -- is largely lost in modern folx

asciilifeform: afaik knuth did not grow any , at least none such that would suffer from the delusion that they are fit to succeed him

asciilifeform: hunger is motivator for the young, who have good battery charge

asciilifeform: BigTexasBingo: to old folx, hunger is not motivator for action, but for depression/death and, often, quisling

asciilifeform: phf: apparently lamport missed this memo

asciilifeform: BigTexasBingo: expand?

asciilifeform: at the very least could've emphasized the absence of a successor.

asciilifeform: phf: right. i did not say that his problem was readily solvable. but it remains -- problem.

asciilifeform: !!up BigTexasBingo

asciilifeform: the problem of trying to be 'millenarian' with earthling human lifespan...

asciilifeform: entirely possible that the man's chief sin was simply the failure to find worthy successor. he left tex to the maggots, and the result is exactly the typical result. ( just as e.g. stalin ended up leaving his 'tex' to the maggots, with similar result ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: afaik.

asciilifeform: which was a going concern in '70s-'80s, while today it is a '70-'80s memory, strictly

asciilifeform: phf: given specifically as i do not know the man -- all i'm left with is 'the mathematics for which he was famous'

asciilifeform: ( and i gotta wonder whether lamport himself was an active perpetrator, or passive victim similar to knuth himself, when the 3GB of liquishit began to form ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: iirc knuth showed first sign of fatal weakness when he failed to put up resistance against what the latex people had done.

asciilifeform: i dun see any fundamental reason why it ~could not~ exist. but also dun see any signs that it in fact does.

asciilifeform: ( see also the not wholly-irrelevant http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-22#1455456 item ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: i'll point out that everything for which knuth is famous, was done before senility and macdows

asciilifeform: the interesting bit is that this disconnect, 'can use ipad but still do honest mathematics', doesn't show any serious symptoms of existing

asciilifeform: from cook-os.

asciilifeform: but gotta say, there is not so much distance left, to winblowz.

asciilifeform: so perhaps not

asciilifeform: in all fairness i can't recall how i came to think that he did.

asciilifeform: but heart did not break then ? why not? i'm curious

asciilifeform: hey he also switched to winblowz

asciilifeform: ( see http://btcbase.org/log/2015-04-09#1094257 and many elsewheres ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: wolfram surely deserves whipping post regardless. ( he is to be counted, imho, right up there with the greatest american charlatans, with josephsmith, edison, gates, et al )

asciilifeform: long pre-dates wolframism

asciilifeform: 'did you mean to search for 'lipstick' instead?? we're gonna search for lipstick instead!'

asciilifeform: this type of 'helpfulness' is pestilential nao

asciilifeform: dunno, all of the artifacts i recall from those days, made it easier for operator to avoid this accidental bankruptcy , not harder.

asciilifeform: somehow, on their planet this is considered acceptable. ☟︎

asciilifeform: specifically thinking of the crapple ones (e.g. 'palaver')

asciilifeform: silently.

asciilifeform: oohyea the worst of the worst, will neither warn nor split, they swallow

asciilifeform: ( with each other, and with naive logs that everybody keeps on own hdd )

asciilifeform: elaborately diddling logs is not The Right Thing. for one thing, it will cause logtrons to fall out of sync.

asciilifeform: phf: imho more correct pill would be to patch e.g. znc. or better still, the client, to warn of splits

asciilifeform: congrats to PeterL, the first (and currently only) ch4 graduate.

asciilifeform: !~later tell phf plox to snarf: 3) http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ffa/ffa_ch4_ffacalc.vpatch.peterl.sig . ty

asciilifeform: !~later tell phf plox to snarf: 1) http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ffa/ffa_ch2_logicals.vpatch.peterl.sig 2) http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ffa/ffa_ch3_shifts.vpatch.peterl.sig

asciilifeform shakes out last crumbs from spam trap, bolts it back into place

asciilifeform: http://www.worldtruth.mx/mathematics/link-id_34145/ << pinoys neversleep(tm)(r)

asciilifeform: in other lulzy backlinx from asciilifeform's www, http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2944&p=57778#p57778 << 6502 enthusiasts , presumably some were not awake in the '80s-'90s , try to rederive carry-bit formula. d00d links asciilifeform's. which is hilarious because on what, do you suppose, asciilifeform originally studied...