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mircea_popescu: there's a dazzling depth to these pointless shits, which is why the whole "oh i wonder why ancient people didn't spend more time thinking -- i could derive all of euclid in an evening" is so amusing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: also has to be sharpened "correctly". too sharp it embeds, too dull it tires you prematurely.
mircea_popescu: phf if you triedf to junglewalk with that thing you'd be blind for all the shit it drags into your face. machete blade is curved the other way, to (if used in the right manner) repell everything at a 45ish angle
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ayup. all primitive societies practice a sort of adolescent male cock caging as a cultural, ofthen the ONLY cultural endeavour.
mircea_popescu: phf ah that's a rather different item. it's not properly a machete, more like a sort of kukri.
mircea_popescu: it is one of the more obvious illustration of the "sexual relations === education" relationship.
mircea_popescu: there you go, you've now just read 80% of all "exotica" literature.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, for alf's benefit since he keeps asking about afghani survival skills : the social dynamics of peace is that the upper crust girl will erotically fixate on the foreign devil with some frequency ; and without exception she will have local cicisbeo xn ; and such a local will attempt to impress her by training you, with some frequency. becauyse hey, he figures the distance'd illuminate for her dumb female head how
mircea_popescu: phf i had a local guy who was trying to impress a local girl explain it all to me. fibers, man!
mircea_popescu: (jungle expedition consists of this person at the front doing a sideways circular motion with the machete to cut through all the gunk that grows everywhere. the men rotate at the front because it's hard fucking work.)
mircea_popescu: not full speed, they manage an incredible coupla miles an hour, but still, human. i count for a 14yo boy i guess.
mircea_popescu: phf it's all because of mommentum. counter-military blow, the blade decelerates just as it hits somehiw. i can't do it either.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem of steel is not altogether a trivial matter of material science. nor is hand forging the universal solution. gotta make the steel for the purpose, as it were.
mircea_popescu: phf do they do the one hack while holding the fruit move there ?
mircea_popescu: altogether very well made knife, and wouldn't shame the milanese.
mircea_popescu: no longer are the chinese the short yellow men of yore. actual steel.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally : the pineapple hacking device is this chinese blade i bought on a lark. turns out it's the best steel i own / have seen in a long while.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf that restores my faith in apple engineering. could buy its own ass!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform an amusing novelty might be a glonass/gps receiver, with a large "has WW3 started ?" sign to go off once it receives neither/.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "which they suppose will resort from their latest" << resort dun work that way.
mircea_popescu: 16k lines in five weeks ? how the hell does anyone even keep up with this thing.
mircea_popescu: !~later tell andreicon re btcbase.org/log/2017-07-13#1682416 see btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666245
mircea_popescu: anyway, splendid article. this is what articles should aim to be.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why he'\s not using better oscillator assembly
mircea_popescu: "The TCVCXO is good; but not quite up to GPS standard when operating un-boxed in windy locations. Blowing on it displaces the 10.000000 MHz crystal oscillator by around 1 part in 10 million or 1 Hz, which is magnified 150 times by the synthesizer PLL. This is enough to momentarily unlock the satellite tracking loops, if done suddenly."
mircea_popescu: pretty sure any sort of non-usg engineering is not legal in usgland.
mircea_popescu: "Mixing with the same code in the correct phase de-spreads the wanted signal and further spreads everything else." << if this isn't technology i dunno what is.
mircea_popescu: actually great article, re the whole "extract signal from below thermal noise floor" thing.
mircea_popescu: and since we're talking of fruit and here, let's take a detour into pina colada. the way to say ass in a sexy-friendly way is cola, which is why the sort of jeans that put out the girl's ass are called levantacola. so now... pina colada should thereby be translated "hourglass pineapple".
mircea_popescu: oh also : let it be said that there are few luxuries more luxurious than this thing whereby you point out the window, "see? that one!" and half hourish later you're hacking up the very fruit in question. they do make iiiiincredible fucking pineapples here.
mircea_popescu: the finer points of forum scheduling still elude me. but nevertheless -- let it be said each dog wil lget his day in the sun and nothing will remain buried in the logs, forgotten. so.
mircea_popescu: phf sorry about that. in retrospect i picked the worst choice, not even on the menu. should have just made a short hi and then decided.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what to do now, continue conversation node way back, go through the logs, re-read the short range here...
mircea_popescu: but, in correct terminology, it is very directly v-for-thought, and nothing else, and no more. "i thought i was writing code" "where's your press ?" "fuck. i understand now i was actually, and literally, and without remainder, just pouring sand on my dick for the novelty of the sensation, exactly like 3 yo first-time-at-black-sea does!"
mircea_popescu: no, it's why i gave up on the notion. djb is too old to be worth it, just like 35yo woman caught in wild.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, teh dungeon calls ; i shall be back in a coupla.
mircea_popescu: i can teach sanity to rabid street urchin within months and to rachel from jewish middle class home within years.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you know the joke about the ny plumber who has a price for fixing a faucet that broke, and a different one for fixing a faucet you tried to fix ?
mircea_popescu: who aren't nearly as well selected or invested into their own mental life.
mircea_popescu: which is how you get talented souls who evidently put time into it, like say djb, or like say blum, being dumber than the l2.
mircea_popescu: and if he went to an establishment supported by pantsuit money and dedicated to the encouragement of shit sloshing, he could spend any amount of time and effort NOT IMPROVING
mircea_popescu: this is because he actually lacks the capacity to discern thought from the dumb shit he's doing ; not because he's not thinking enough.
mircea_popescu: he thinks, in the portable latrine he carries above his shoulders, that such nonsense is the result of a thought process, that he's thinking, you know, at me and etcetera.
mircea_popescu: phf i'll propose to you that the problem is too much over"thinking". the idea is to get the idiot stop doing what he thinks is thinking.
mircea_popescu: and so you hear the better hos going "or else what ? whatcha gonna do, bitch ?" to their mother on occasion, and know you've struck gold.
mircea_popescu: kids about the age of i dunno, 15 or so if they're really late with the brain development discover ourdemocracy spawned parents can never threaten.
mircea_popescu: there's the pedosmile ; and then there's the castratocantthreato smile.
mircea_popescu: no, not really. fud is closer to the tmsrt notion of army in being than to the ustard notion of stupid males with cunts whining.
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking pile of fail consists of the vague hope someone may be dumb enough to take a barking caterpillar for a dog.
mircea_popescu: the tikrit fucking offensive. if you actually had the means to do an embargo on russia, would you announce it in advance ? if you had the actual men and materiel to take as much as an ozarks farm, would you announce it in advance ? etfc.
mircea_popescu: incidentally my greatest health problem atm is hooker-acquired strep throat. bubble long gone, lost a little weight and well... that was it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, bitcoin.org straifght to /dev/null. utter scamsite.
mircea_popescu: it's time for random shitstain to angle towards unwarranted relevancy 24/7 over there, innit
mircea_popescu: let me rephrase that in the form of a question. who wants to buy / sell some bitcoin on Aug 1st ?
mircea_popescu: who wants to buy / sell some bitcoin on Aug 01 at 0 "coordinated universal time" whatever the shit that means.
mircea_popescu: "alternatively, don't go on forks, don't have a problem."