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assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 21:44:44; ascii
_field: notice how, e.g., france, made own hydrogen bomb. but it is powerless to make own 'pentium.'
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Basically turns 2015 awesome diesels into 1980's diesels
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 21:22:20; pete
_dushenski: khamenei's approach, despite being at odds with iran's president, is correct, sane, and hygenic.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> BingoBoingo you know drinking never got anyone anywhere. << But it got people to no where
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea
_popescu: i can't help but spot ddos vector - in this case, for the mind << This is why I concern myself with such things while "liver training"
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 17:34:55; pete
_dushenski: actually, 'alf dog' sounds like a great comic strip idea
pete_dushenski: !v assbot:pete
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pete_dushenski: assbot:pete
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pete_dushenski: ascii
_field and where does z80 fit into this picture ?
ascii_field: pete
_dushenski: reasonable enough not to launch a trillion's worth of au into the sun.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu actually worked some magic to try scoring a sample board but nothing came of it.
ascii_field: pete
_dushenski: i do not know for a fact that elbrus was made.
ascii_field: pete
_dushenski: china does not actually design workstation either !
pete_dushenski: ascii
_field as 2010s usa has trouble keeping up with chian
ascii_field: pete
_dushenski: they had trouble keeping up with 1980s usa
ascii_field: pete
_dushenski: because, to any 'reasonable' person, making french pentium is entirely indistinguishable from taking the entire gold reserve and shooting it into the sun
☟︎ BingoBoingo: ascii
_field: But flying to intercept means getting close enough for a bored kind at Nellis to put the drone into a hard turn for the lulz
pete_dushenski: ascii
_field but if french bureaucracy is (and has been for decades if not centuries) the centralised behemoth that i understand it to be, why h-bomb and no 'pentium' ?
BingoBoingo: ascii
_field: Well then can use self as rocket
pete_dushenski: ascii
_field this is perhaps a better restatement of what i was getting at with the uniqueness of computing
pete_dushenski: ascii
_field because poison pill computing has seeped in the cracks.
BingoBoingo: <ascii
_field> you can't buy a truck without plastic in it, and computerized ignition, either. << Sure you can... Just not new
pete_dushenski: ascii
_field it seems that computing is unique in this regard.
ascii_field: pete
_dushenski: this kind of thing began in 1960-70s, where 'why did this computer end up in su' became a thing
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: sure the bar is lower for dogs, where's the alf dog ? not meeting a stand-out example allows the others to enjoy their mediocre unexceptionalism
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski im not so sure of the entire moulding thing. i think i met more competent dogs than competent humans in my life, mostly because the bar so much lower for dog. and it's self-moulding really, just as long as you don't get in th way too much.
pete_dushenski: mike
_c: more easily than people, yes. but people too !
mircea_popescu: stories from the deep, for my good friends in nyc (paging mike
_c ) : plumer called yest ; said he's gonna show up today between noon and 3. showed up at 1. fixed thing with his own parts, half hour labour, certified sort of task. the bill ? ~120.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:35:36; phf: known as блат in russian,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors). though that word is more often used in context of getting ahead i think it basically applies to overall structure of society. when shit hits the fan you call a your sister's husband's uncle who's a general, "vasily mikhalich, this is such and such..."
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2015 16:19:17; mircea
_popescu: Argentine Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich had said Nisman's allegations were "crazy, absurd, illogical, irrational, ridiculous, unconstitutional".
mircea_popescu: gabriel
_laddel a large part of the problem is that math is very poorly structured.
gabriel_laddel: mircea
_popescu: I remember reading it, and at the time I couldn't tell if you were discussing seriously using V as a basis for academics, or just the general notion of having a explicit academic WoT.
punkman: gabriel
_laddel: is there a mirror of mcclim.cliki.net?
phf: gabriel
_laddel: probably not enough to be useful, i played with it but ultimately switched to lispwork's capi for projects
phf: known as блат in russian,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors). though that word is more often used in context of getting ahead i think it basically applies to overall structure of society. when shit hits the fan you call a your sister's husband's uncle who's a general, "vasily mikhalich, this is such and such..."
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <gabriel
_laddel> BingoBoingo: and photos of that agent << The Treasury department's agent's name was Broachwala or some shit. Dot Indian. FBI refused to leave card, but ginger presumably Irish asshole/
BingoBoingo: <gabriel
_laddel> trinque: unless I'm greatly mistaken, he has a court case for something or other physical and US dept of treasury agents have dropped by his house b/c btc. << I have disorderly conduct misdemeanor pending in neighboring county. Fed visit is on pre-qntra blawg
trinque: gabriel
_laddel: cause maybe he doesn't want to say what got them interested
BingoBoingo: <gabriel
_laddel> BingoBoingo: The pics would be for our intel systems dude << You don't need an image to recognize broke ass USG Denzel Washington wannabe
BingoBoingo: <gabriel
_laddel> Facial recognition goes both ways. I could use pics. << Doesn't need to go far. My street has no black residents. My street is a blind loop. One pass could be a common criminal. Multiple people is Law Enforcement.
BingoBoingo: gabriel
_laddel: I drink too much to boat and sail sleeping
BingoBoingo: <gabriel
_laddel> BingoBoingo: yea, but I thought you were scared of the gangs? << Not just any old gangs, specific kinds
BingoBoingo: gabriel
_laddel: Walk, yes. Cruise, too much for budget given constraints.
trinque: gabriel
_laddel: I am, staying with family while I evaluate where to live
funkenstein_: gabriel
_laddel, hooked on diff-eq-ics! great stuff.
BingoBoingo: <gabriel
_laddel> asciilifeform: that problem reduces to "why doesn't MP run of with MPEX funds" << Not at all
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> you realise i can declare a compound of arbitrary complexity right ? << Declare, yes. Not blow yourself up with, no.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> so can i have polymerizable water ? or is this "anything" limited by other criteria than "what you can describe" ? << Violently