asciilifeform: so it is quite in keeping with this, for it to , say, pioneer 'robot works in vacuum, and moves without hindrance of air resistance, ReallyFast!' etc☟︎
asciilifeform: 'tesla' of course is not a commercial op in the usual sense, but rather an elaborate fraud prop, similar to a konsoomer-flavoured lockheedmartin
asciilifeform: if actually care about capex -- speed up, or better yet, eliminate -- the ~meat~ in your line.
asciilifeform: as for 'critical to capex', vey rarely is robot the chokepoint in the line.
asciilifeform: this is an entire field, i cannot begin to sum it up here. but even in 19th c machinists understood 'fast cut xor accurate cut'
asciilifeform: just because thing can 'move faster than you can see' dun mean that it stops on a dime, or that it won't oscillate ( ever see rifle barrel on high speed camera? ) , ring like a bell, destroy whatever illusion of accuracy.
asciilifeform: the 'tecan evo' i worked with ( small industrial gantry bot ) could make fully 100x faster motions than vendor recommended . BUT -- 1) the default winblowz turdware ( that afaik every installation other than mine, used , lock stock etc ) would result eventually in smashed equipment, dead bearings, and possibly injured meat and ..
asciilifeform: ( bamford is the original -- and for some decades the only -- 'nsa biographer' )
asciilifeform: '"Were they living today," quips author Bamford, "[they] would probably defect all over again."' (2007)
asciilifeform: 'The NSA immediately began searching for other sexual deviants in its ranks, eventually purging 26 employees suspected of being security risks because of their alleged "perversions."' prettygreat.
asciilifeform: iirc nsa was first publicly proclaimed by usg when marvin&mitchell escaped.
asciilifeform: ( was a somewhat different animal before pc comp . split b/w actual signal-gathering , bug-plantin', supplying idjit hagelin crypto boxen to ~every major country, etc )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usg long ago gave up on intel in the traditional sense . e.g. nsa 'restaurant menu' consists ~100% of vulns they themselves created.
asciilifeform: i have not yet had the pleasure of this disease. just as i have not yet suffered what the chukchas get from walrus-only diet in lean months etc
asciilifeform: possibly because i'd turn black long before changing vitamind overload
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interesting, i had nfi this was a thing
asciilifeform: '“Snowden killed morale,” another T.A.O. analyst said. “But at least we knew who he was. Now you have a situation where the agency is questioning people who have been 100 percent mission-oriented, telling them they’re liars.”'
asciilifeform: over here i get 20min and then begin to cook, even carry a dosimeter thing
asciilifeform recalls c3 and ~week spent in the sun, and 0 burn☟︎
asciilifeform: oh hah yer in range of usa's deozonation or whatever cone again aintcha.
asciilifeform: lolhey mircea_popescu back to sea again ??
asciilifeform: mats: as it is, the ~marketable half of the iq bell curve, already resigned and went into 'contracts'
asciilifeform: 'Some T.A.O. employees have been asked to turn over their passports, take time off their jobs and submit to questioning'
asciilifeform: nao for the money shot from the lul, 'But he says no one from the N.S.A. has contacted him about being singled out publicly by the Shadow Brokers. “That feels like a betrayal,” he said. “I was targeted by the Shadow Brokers because of that work. I do not feel the government has my back.”'
asciilifeform: ( though the bolix shipped with the opposite, an adatron in zetalisp )
asciilifeform: 'N.S.A. employees have been subjected to polygraphs and suspended from their jobs in a hunt for turncoats allied with the Shadow Brokers. Much of the agency’s cyberarsenal is still being replaced, curtailing operations' << gold
asciilifeform: ng technical details that made clear they knew about highly classified hacking operations that he had conducted'
