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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, in the 70s. it ain't the 70s anymore.
mircea_popescu: r0nin- i guess. anyone's entitled to his own favoritas.
mircea_popescu: anyway, rome is not really on the map for the sartorial gentleman. and the only thing that puts italy on the map is marcha, go pick a few pairs of shoes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shocking how many buyers tolerate the synthetics these days.
mircea_popescu: oh, yeah, that suit's dead by now. but it served well in the heat.
mircea_popescu: i know plenty of people spending a lot more for a week's vacation and getting a whole lot less.
mircea_popescu: 4-5k for the tickets + 4-5k for the hotel + 4-5k for the whores + 4.5k for the suits = 20k and you've a bunch of stories to tell.
mircea_popescu: but yes, tailoring tourism fits well with argentina. land, go straight to tailor, have measures taken, go to exedra or w/e pick up a coupla hookers, come back a week later pick up your half dozen suits and jump into plane.
mircea_popescu: r0nin- not terrible. old jew, knows his trade. anyway fabric varies wildly, this was a light linen thing. they'll make it out of anything, including bring-your-own
mircea_popescu: hm dude how quicly one forgets. wtf was it, cabildo cartago lessee
mircea_popescu: the one i picked up when ben_vulpes was visiting set me back 10k.
mircea_popescu: r0nin- don't tell me you got fresh reading recommendations ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1701913 <<< it's not just that. firefox rendering engine has been forever broken, since version 5 or so. i dunno what version they're at by now, 60 or 160 or w/e, but they never actyually got the manpower together to fix the problem. which problem is -- not memory stable!!! most gfx pages will eat up firefox memory at linear rate over time. which means that the browser will always crash, no m
☝︎ mircea_popescu: otherwise, stays child / vaguely transitions into cvasi-girl over time.
mircea_popescu: man who uses computer to do work never fails to discover this. the only thing is that most children start their intellectual life using computers for entertainment (which is entirely natural) and the transition happens naturally only if child is exposed to environment that permits manhood.
mircea_popescu: all these together add up to triple digit productivity gains.
mircea_popescu: and finally of course there's the important 3. pages that fail to work through this process are very rarely worth reading, you basically gain an entry filter more valuable than readily intuited.
mircea_popescu: 2. eye trying to orient in the "user friendly" graphical bloat is an incomprehensibly huge wastage of bioresources.
mircea_popescu: it may seem offputting at first, "where's my rounded corners" reaction. then if you stick with it for a few weeks you might discover the IMMENSE productivity gains of text-only.
mircea_popescu: one of the rare cases where sheer discipline carried the day.
mircea_popescu: he'd go consult with mp with a list of questions, and MEMORIZE the fucking answers.
mircea_popescu: dude was fascinating though. completely inept linguistically, entirely uncultivated (no highschool degree). undeterred.
mircea_popescu: it was decent and no more back when the principal target was the german kingdom. same exact evolution in tito's aglutination, actually.
mircea_popescu: but romania ended up with a competent secret service mostly through infiltrating kgb, not through competition with the deeply inept burgeoises.
mircea_popescu: it was a case of "the inept management died, and the bright kids republiced in their absence". blasted through everything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the actual reason, i am persuaded, is that the formerly VERY competitive, fragmented talent finally pooled starting mid 1989 and ending six months later.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, the fear of one generation became the reality of the next. funny how it never worked that way re nuke ; but did work that way re craft.
mircea_popescu: the point is not without merit, though. ~all the competent, at artisan level, males, the dudes working leather and metal and wood and whatnot ~competently~ are virtually all 50 yo doods with very much a slave mentality.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: she's a slavegirl here ; otherwise luvs torturing bois in her free time.
mircea_popescu: switch over my shoulder grinning and bobbing her head. "yeah, what men need to perform is constriction."
mircea_popescu: not a bad idea at all ; was going to come up when we were finally making the tmsr hdd controllers. but even early dun hurt anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, which aspect makes them slightly better than spinsters, which actually become unreadable.
mircea_popescu: (raid reconstruct is io intensive, could push over the edge the redundancy, dying disk)
mircea_popescu: as age is a great predictor of ssd failure and the shits are perfectly capable of dying same week.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the principle is correct : make raid out of same items, then a few months in change one. though it doesn't need to be changed. then use THAT in the next raid you build.
mircea_popescu: it's important to find out, after all most fiat unis/tech corps/whatever actually to this day harbor the managerial delusion that they can in fact compete with the republic on a flesh basis.
mircea_popescu: i don't specifically care. it's a simple "come see whether you are good enough to seep people into your company or lose all your brain power to our better model".
mircea_popescu: that's the fucking position, wtf do i want FROM a bunch of fiat rottinculo.
mircea_popescu: not a matter of that. a matter of, hey, we're actually significantly smarter than you, come hang out, who knows, maybe you gain something.
mircea_popescu: we should get ice-cube trays with various TMSR ship names on the inside.
mircea_popescu: there is no substantial difference between us and british navy just like there's no substantial difference between us and nazy atomic program.
mircea_popescu: wait, is it because india names its ships NSS Blabla sopmething we're supposed to believe "that's just what';s done" ? rather than "oh look, orc HMS!!!" ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose "i never commuted" should go on my list of "shit i missed out" huh.