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TheNewDeal: they cut out granite, marble, and man-made stone for
the most part. I've heard some people cut steel with em
decimation: well water-jet cutting is up
there
too
mircea_popescu: there is some 3d ablative
tech sort-of similar, but mostly limited
to medicinal use
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc plasma cutting is 2d for a very similar reason :
too damned expensive.
decimation: yeah
that makes sense,
too little mass in contact
decimation: what about plasma cutter? wouldn't
that heat while cutting?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually one should be able
to anneal in jungle conditions. put gun on rock, put lens on gun around 7am. by early morning next...
mircea_popescu: you know one of you
two needs
to get a real name
thing going. it's so fucking difficult for me
to keep diametric and decimation apart in my head.
decimation: I wish 'maker' derps would build machining devices rather
than plastic molders
mircea_popescu: are on
the record stating something like "well
these
two idiots came in, one a complete nobody ,
the other a dork, but we figured... whatever, it's just a script, we've not spent
that much money on it"
mircea_popescu: somewhat vaguely related :
the nbc producers
that decided
to greenlight seinfeld,
the largest grossing production in
the history of nbc and
the
thing
that even made sitcoms a
thing
mircea_popescu: which it is. and yet...
the discussion isn't whether it looks promising (in
the
terms of
today)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah i see what you mean. i
took it literally :D
decimation: the broken-ness becomes a negative externality
that is distributed randomly
mircea_popescu: where is
the locklin one. basically his
thesis was
that "printed guns will never work because
the barrel isn't sexy"
decimation: the problem is
that with something like computing, it's "somewhat broken"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was
this where i was disagreeing with locklin's similar idiocy ?
mircea_popescu: and by
too clean i mean
the sort
that doesn't bareback random whores because "who knows what may happen"
mircea_popescu: decimation
this is a particular sort of methodological error strategists of
the "too clean" variety make.
the error is
to imagine
that what's in question is whether
the new
thing is promising (positive) rather
than broken (negative). fact is any new
thing
that isn't broken will probably outperform any current
thing simply because business is about growth.
assbot: Shockley diode - Wikipedia,
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decimation: yeah he basically said "forget about
the
transistor, really complicated diodes are
the future"
mircea_popescu: wasn't he
the guy who overengineered a diode while neglecting
transistors
to
the point nobody could afford it ?
mircea_popescu: from experience girls will forget flamboyant failure much easier
than boring drudgery.
mircea_popescu: at least hughes was not a boring stolid "social improvement"
type.
decimation: fortunately
they had
the sense
to follow noyce into
the middle of nowhere and start a new business
mircea_popescu: shockley is perhaps
the best example of
totally nutso master running his harem straight into a wall.
decimation: obviously if Mr. Noyce had stayed in Iowa he would have been an advanced farmer, not
the founder of modern semiconductor business
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nubbins` gets
the vague sense
that gribs could use a !translate plugin
mircea_popescu: and again,
the idea
that
there's something wrong with
the people involved is patent nonsense. kids come from
the vilage
to
town and do better
than kids born in
town all
the
time.
decimation: most of
them worked in big east coast corporations for several years first,
true
mircea_popescu: people who have
to come
to b-a
to start a successful operation don't need just
the money, or even
the money at all.
decimation: well,
there's no doubt
that
they had
to come
to
the city
to meet
the son of IBM founder
to get money
to start
the operation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform probably related problem,
tho
those are usually hunters.
mircea_popescu: decimation mind, i'm not arguing
the people
themselves are broken.
decimation: places like silicon valley were started by rural folk from
the midwest, founded fairchild & invented modern
transistors and IC's
mircea_popescu: now
this may be just fine and dandy "for some applications", but it's not a computer.
mircea_popescu: to put it in
the
terms of
the anonimity as urban/rural dispute article :
the rural guy can run software without ever needing a garbage collector, because no program ever covers memory.
mircea_popescu: think,
the rural noob in
town has been
the lol of
the
town's margins anywhere anytime, pick a society. coincidence ?
mircea_popescu: it's because
they don't get
the incentive or
the opportunity
to use a large swath of
the brain.
mircea_popescu: this is
the reason you broadly cabn't have intelligent rural people :
too contemplative, by
the nature of what rural means.
mircea_popescu: fuckwit discovering
the ancient sources of greek philosophy by hand on his own,
two milenina late.
mircea_popescu: one of
the worms in question is a shepherd. he says, 1950ish : "con le stelle se puo parlare".
mircea_popescu: he is incredibly popular with
the worms, for
the obvious reason : a shot at
their idea of a better life.
mircea_popescu: meh i can't find where i said it. anyway, in
that film, which is predicated on
the notion
that an urbanite goes in
the rural other world (he's a fraudulent film
talent scout, cinecita was a big deal in post war italy).
decimation: certainly peasants in pakistan can perform
that feat
decimation: I would go with yes, many of
them load
their own ammo
decimation: but
they are a minority even in rural areas