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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes understand, MOST historical porcelain ever made survived. this is very not true of steel, which ~all broke.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's how it's dealt with, yes. improved mix, it's not straight up enammeled clay eh.
mircea_popescu: intuitively it may seem "oh, it's brittle", because whatever, dropped mom's china. but this intuition is wrong.
mircea_popescu: problem with porcelain is weak internal bonding, not brittleness.
mircea_popescu: every material is to a degree brittle much like every material is to a degree warm.
mircea_popescu: yes but your discussion is weak. porcelain is harder than you understand.
mircea_popescu: possibly not a good fit for kbd depending on how hard you hit.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, afaik retired academia, stanford whatever.
mircea_popescu: "Elaine Ou is a blockchain engineer at Global Financial Access, a financial technology company in San Francisco."
mircea_popescu: yes, but in point of fact i write as much or more as anyone, on a kbd.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose i'm the only one that doesn't actually care all that much.
mircea_popescu: (note that all key arrangements, from atms to dishwashers, are in a rectangular pattern ; and i expect alf wants them radial or something)
mircea_popescu: what you need is one of those 50yo slave guys who spend life making chain mail and surgical steel stilleto heels.
mircea_popescu: with good wear characteristics, andthen the item wants to retail for 20 bux.
mircea_popescu: this is a very difficult problem, arbitrarily placed keys.
mircea_popescu: you want your keyboard to have special letters on it ?
mircea_popescu: unless you're getting your fingers measured for the key size or some shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that difficulty is in no way particular. keys are commodity items.
mircea_popescu: ie, when at the height of soviet obamacare you broke your leg and your mother made you an ad-hoc wooden contraption to fix it, she DID in fact bespoke you a traction, even if it sucked so bad as to compare negatively to african healthcare.
mircea_popescu: but i've yet to have a special textile plant made for it.
mircea_popescu: there's a substantial difference between "i don't like this" and "this doesn't compare favourably to rando coworker's item". these two can never mix. this isn't sophistry, but plain sense.
mircea_popescu: if "mass-produced plebeshit as minimal bar" is your criterion, then it definitionally is not bespoke. because it's not compared to you, it's compared to the mass.
mircea_popescu: either the first part, or the second part. you can't mix these.
mircea_popescu: they still use commodity fabric, furnishings etc. they just tailor it to your ass is all.
mircea_popescu: eh, qty of one. "omfg, do you know what it means to make a planet on which snakes might evolve so as to have material FOR BUTTONS?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu aspires to one day meet a chick by the name o' shennaniganne o'sheridan.
mircea_popescu: whole definition of being a gavin is above. "speak so nobody can tell if the "audience" listens or not"\
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nope. just, when gavin's talking it's impossible to tyell if they read or underlined.
mircea_popescu: besides, st. clinton promised them they won't have to.
mircea_popescu: why did the gringo tards sit with me at casino table, not notice THEY are losing ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from lack of information ; or a thing to process it with.
mircea_popescu: CERTAINLY not anything like "hey, they told you this in 2014"
mircea_popescu: im sure it was an accident that didn't happen and doesn't mean anything.
mircea_popescu: what do you mean why it needed a driver! IT IS MORE SERIOUS BUSINESS WITH DRIVER!
mircea_popescu: there's also a deep red one, but i've not yet seen it.
mircea_popescu: yest a frog, a pretty tiny tree guy, climed all the way up to the top level terrace thing, 10 meters. was sitting on a (wooden) chair going "sup ?"
mircea_popescu: "oh, he's funny". no, he's not funny. "but he's so scholarly" right, and if i went to nigeria i'd be so godly.
mircea_popescu: and i mean basic shit, "oh, if you have shares in the crown thaty'll be quite enough". really bitch, i get shit for free at walmart for owning walmart stock, that's what it is ?!
mircea_popescu: recall that bit where he and laurie "don't understand" how privatization works ?
mircea_popescu: take stephen fry as a fine example. cancerous fag has been doing anti-reality nonsense since the 80s
mircea_popescu: imaginary women, imaginary relations of power, imagined nonsense.
mircea_popescu: what's residence needed for ? ~nothing made in english since 2001 has any basis in sanity, it's 100% the pantsuit lulz.