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mircea_popescu: or did he do the whole tv franchise bs and left coucou ?
mircea_popescu: i am not aware of a successful restaurant that was built as you describe. you have a) the funes style restaurants, owned and operated by an actual expert chef. these are 50-50 for roi. b) the "prestige" restaurants of very large hotel conglomerates. these always lose money and are the mud from which a sprouts and in which a goes to die. and then you have the roadside diners. and then d) you have the franchises.
mircea_popescu: phf he tried and failed from hwat i hear. though i hear via actual bar people, as opposed to itards, and it's mixed in "shithead has nfi how to run a bar" expletives.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform retinal driven blindness is usually circulatory/vascular in nature.
mircea_popescu: the way it usually works is that they lose focus vision but retain lateral vision (this is how chet's eyes work). this then can through intensive training be taken to the point where you can actually write code. whereas surgery to implant a) doesn't yield very good focus vision and b)c threatens complete destruction of peripheral remnants.
mircea_popescu: major problem is that few people lose vision through retinal failure in a way that produces total blindness.
mircea_popescu: actually the ancient web presses were coupla mil a pop.
mircea_popescu: so... two dozen 1/4mn boxes, what of it ? ordinary print shop
mircea_popescu: i believe. to my eye that's not apparent, just, you know, "Whatever boxes they use"
mircea_popescu: in other news : all the chicks in cairo wore the cairo chick dress, and every chick here is wearing jeans. permanently. dressing up = different top, same jeans.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes any chance you check out this "people's comp museum" next seattle trip ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Comments: Interested in finding the value of a like new Otrona Attache. all accessories (including carry case)and documentation and software with it. Used only once to wright a college paper."
mircea_popescu: nah, that large thing with the keyboard unwrapping off the top.
mircea_popescu: "attache -- the compact computer for the professional". back when computer guy had to go around with toolbox the size of plumber's.
mircea_popescu: the fate of fame is that more people will have an oppinion of you than you ever met.
mircea_popescu: well, i guess see if ian wants to reg a pgp key, i'd rate him. if nothing else, on the strength of
mircea_popescu: phf do you also know who the quails fellow is ? someone or just local beck ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the strong claim was that he was the guy that finally fitted disk to symbolics.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. so far i've not discovered a discrete way to help teh good folk.
mircea_popescu: hey, as per regulations that's what you have to do anyway as part of cleaning them
mircea_popescu: phf's nightmare fuel, high octane : being alf's personal secretary in an alt-soviet ww2 wherein alf is zhukov.
mircea_popescu: wait, you sat there watching alf bitchslap random guy and shaking your head ? lol
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im a guest there, what. am i going to go around visiting people and organising their harems ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, to a certain (EXTREMELY FUCKING LARGE) degree, people being weary of redditatds one day popping in is entirely understandable to me.
mircea_popescu: my hidden implication being that the traditional reasons to have the cleave are no longer sound.
mircea_popescu: phf supposedly this was for some charity with kidsd and shit.
mircea_popescu: (in other lulz nobody likely cares about, * Topic for #bolix is: *** IBM PCjr collectors club )
mircea_popescu: ok, let's approach it this way : is the point of a "high level language" strictly to clothe cpu instruction set in glyphs people like, or is there an actual substantive function to it beyond ux ?
mircea_popescu: but you can in fact make the cpu run the same instruction set as the language allows ?
mircea_popescu: but i only asked for ada chip in sense of, cpu instruction set == ada language.
mircea_popescu: for the same money you could know 0f is if or whatever the fuck, ada instruction.
mircea_popescu: you currentyly know 0f is pop and 0f a9 is pop gs and so on.
mircea_popescu: humanreadable face on code is a GLYPH. the code is actually code.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ince when the fuck ? use whatever glyphs you want for the opcodes.
mircea_popescu: as in language-on-a-chip, no interpreter no compiler no linker no assembler.
mircea_popescu: they're all asics, in the metal layer sense used in bitcoin mining. they deliver.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's that thing amateur rocketry kids dfick with, what was it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is true, but the fucking correct solution was to take the bs off not to "fix it". aaanyway
mircea_popescu: ie, if you implement 32 register views you're then making a server cpu whereas if you implement 3 you're thereby making an embeddable cpu
mircea_popescu: and the sparc designers imagined allowing this to be between x or y counts as "Scalable"
mircea_popescu: the number of such "register views" aka windows was a per-processor thing
mircea_popescu: they did this dumb shit whereby passing was done by shared registers ; every process or w/e could see 8 proper and 8 shared or such.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at issue is the count of "registger windows" that can be implemented.