asciilifeform: or certainly nobody both thought + implemented.
asciilifeform: i find it interesting that -- afaik -- nobody in actual asia thought of EITHER approach.
asciilifeform: a clever man might be able to think of something involving vectorized 'brush strokes' rather than raster. might be moar searchable. but inevitably moar complex also.
asciilifeform: and it 'sits on the cock AND eats the fish', in that hieroglyphists get ( if painfully ) to have their nonsense, BUT they also get to feel what it actually costs. and at the same time NO explicit support for any particular hieroglyph clutters yours or my box.
asciilifeform: it's a mighty mouthful to say 1 word 'whore', BUT it compresses ok -- even if all you use is runlength code.
asciilifeform: at the cost of a bit of log clutter, let's indulge asciilifeform's crackpottery, and lay out 妓 ( U+5993 : whore ) :☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: i dun even give a fuck whether chinese get to write their hieroglyphs . but i'd like to insert occasional nabla or whatnot , greek etc without swapping code pages.
asciilifeform: ( and keeps compressor where it belongs - simple and on the generic outside, rather than specific per monkeylang )
asciilifeform: incidentally, the 32byte thing will compress ok. just like earthling langs do.
asciilifeform: and what day of menses the menstruade used as ink was from aha
asciilifeform: let'em suck it and be happy that they get to write their monkeylang at all.
asciilifeform: ( faith healers, esp, ufology, were on MAINSTREAM ru tv at the time. so a 'counterculture' mag ~had to~ avoid'em, see )
asciilifeform: it was not the bizarre cocktail of mental illness exhibited in 'mondo'
asciilifeform: revisiting http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-22#1689019 : 'XAKEP' mag stands head and shoulders above 'mondo' et al rubbish : it may be lame, but (most of) the things it describes ACTUALLY EXISTED, long-forgotten dos games, vapourware, electric schemes for 'detect ufo' that would at least detect passing truck certainly, tv jammer would in fact jam tv.☝︎
asciilifeform: ( or are they released in the forest to find later, like safari lions in 19th c... ? )
asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu-style fun consisted of sitting in chair and watching the gurlz fight over which one gets to go in the door
asciilifeform: i dunno why mircea_popescu would even want this sort of thing
asciilifeform: what you'd want here is a vortex tube, that lets dust/heavies settle into exhaust drain, air per se -- out the side pipe, and the magic fraction concentrated 100+x -- to nose.
asciilifeform: there is an 'olfactometer', instrument that pumps known volume of sampled air from the room into expert nose, for gas leaks etc but is NOT same thing as subj.
asciilifeform never found any record of such a thing being attempted
asciilifeform: where asciilifeform admitted that in preference to gc/ms or other usgairport-like fancy junk, it could very well be a simpler matter of concentrating odours from air and simply piping into own nose
asciilifeform: did we ever do the concentrator thread ?
asciilifeform: i thought that was what yer ears were for
asciilifeform: but this was ( fortunately ? ) before he had money.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform actually investigated building this.
asciilifeform: same place as other barely plausible martian tech, lol
