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mircea_popescu: and i have done a moderately shitty job of having loaded in head
the entire linux backports project.
mircea_popescu: you have currently [done a very poor job] of having loaded in head all binary
turds used by all proprietary crap you use.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless,
there's no such
thing as
the option of whether
to load or
to not load. if it runs -- you're loading.
mircea_popescu: the difference between
the bank clerk who "knows how
to run excel" and alf, who can produce cp101a, is not, as you
think, "has loaded in head ?". because bank girl has, after a fashion,
to inept standards, somewhat loaded windows in head.
that your loading is better
than her loading is
true, and
that items move from worse
to better in hands of republic and from better
to worse in hands of empire is also
true.
mircea_popescu: this
thing you call "digging
through"... is in fact...
mircea_popescu: because
the "not loaded in head"
thing is illusory. someone somewhere will.
mircea_popescu: there's no escape from
the "any live code -- loaded in head" rule, and
this is why you even get
the "code -- small"
tool.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because idiots hallucinated
the option of "not loading in head",
the code in question now works as a sort of digital frontier : whoever loads more faster wins. hence "hackers".
mircea_popescu: that's
the only distinction reality permits : between code
that is run, and code
that is not run. whether
the
task of stuffing it in head "is feasible" according
to
the head in question or any other heads is entirely irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and
the only way for
that
to not have
to happen is for someone
to chisel down
the 5mb. because your hallucinated "option" as
to whether you load or not load has 0 bearing --
the only question is whether
the 5mb run or don't run.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 15:48 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-06#1858956 <<
this view, sweet as all delusions ever are, nevertheless is not
tenable. live code is live code, and
that's
the only categorical distinction. whether you'd like
to eat
the spitoon or not is a signal reality's not pulled out pins
to capture.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all
the empire shit works by
this "only way
to get an x is
to link an x'
to an y'
to
the x" device. by now it's actually usable as an empire-detecting heuristic.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 13:24 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu:
the pnoje people called me at ~800hrs
to confirm
the # ; but apparently
there's meat magic involved and it aint live yet ( lessee
tomorrow )
trinque: nope, which is why I was curious where he got
that number. guess if he wants
to keep bidding
to reach it, by all means!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he's with
the boy scouts, wants
to be prepared.
BingoBoingo: trinque: Are you calling
the auction early or something?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-06 17:03 asciilifeform:
this worx great for
theorems, algos, but not so much for MB of coad soup
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-06#1858956 <<
this view, sweet as all delusions ever are, nevertheless is not
tenable. live code is live code, and
that's
the only categorical distinction. whether you'd like
to eat
the spitoon or not is a signal reality's not pulled out pins
to capture.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: we routinely do
this
to eg latins. applies just as well eveywhere.
mircea_popescu: from
the anthropology/hoc pov,
this is possibly
the best example
to point
to when defending "civilisation had ended prior
to 1990"
thesis.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 13:22 asciilifeform: and yes i'd rather have 2 half-sized batts
than 1 large,
this is elementary, esp. given
that
the 'large' are made of N smalls
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 03:40
trinque: oh also BingoBoingo, pls
to shoot me WU deets again at your convenience.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 00:28 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-07#1859325 << uterly indefensible choice, "we make lappy with ONE battery". all lappies of all
time should have had
two. so what if smaller
two ? hotswappable!
a111: Logged on 2018-10-07 19:02 mod6: BingoBoingo: Please
to bid 76M for hanbot's auction -- between
this one and
trinque's, we're already half-way
there
to next month. Not bad!
trinque: oh also BingoBoingo, pls
to shoot me WU deets again at your convenience.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: But naturally all of
the pantsuit flavored publications are painting
this as "Candidate Underwhelms By Failing
To Avoid Runoff" instead of embarrassing overperformance versus
their polls
BingoBoingo: In other local new, Make Brasil Great Again appears
to have nearly outright won
the presidency. Still waiting on official results, but instead of
the 27-30%
take he was supposedly polling now it is looking like a 45-50%
take
BingoBoingo: At
this point, untraining
the hands is likely
to be a challenge
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 00:12 BingoBoingo:
The hands adjust
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 00:05 phf: i have
this
terminal at 16px :>
mircea_popescu: but, by
the
time lappies started,
thinking was long out of us process.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-07 23:59 phf: what's kind of silly and i
think mp made
that point a while ago,
that none of
the manufacturers of
that vintage attempted
to do a swapable battery. a dual battery slot, or a smaller internal battery
that would keep
the
thing powered for ~60 seconds it
takes
to switch
the battery
BingoBoingo: I dunno, I
think my hands have
the stockholm syndrome pretty good on
this issue
BingoBoingo has been surviving on an X120e since before we started calling
this
thing
TMSR
phf: eink screen, 4:3 aspect ratio, old
thinkpad keyboard, 1 week battery life :p
phf: i could read 9pix, but fuck
that
phf: i have
this
terminal at 16px :>
☟︎ phf: i'm weird in
that respect, i don't mind seeing pixels, reminds me of better
times as far as computing. i make it extra ugly
too, e.g. i run windowmaker, aliased fonts,
the works
phf: gut
the x60 chassis, put rk in
there,
though you're still stuck with
the screen
phf: what's kind of silly and i
think mp made
that point a while ago,
that none of
the manufacturers of
that vintage attempted
to do a swapable battery. a dual battery slot, or a smaller internal battery
that would keep
the
thing powered for ~60 seconds it
takes
to switch
the battery
☟︎ BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Likely how it made it
to
the feria. Feria is powered by dumpster finds and sticky fingers
phf: i've
traveled with it before, but yeah, i'd
turn it off, plug it in somewhere,
turn it on. c101pa on
the other hand has an insane battery life: i've been running it in pure console mode, and it will last a day or
two
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I might have seen it at
the feria recently on a
table
that also had a Macbook Air...
phf: right, i basically
treat
the battery as a ups, i.e. hold it long enough for me
to move it from place
to place