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asciilifeform: i've never seen an actual working 'vectrex.' but knew about it from ancient graphics textbook.
mircea_popescu: 100 bucks. but i never had one.
asciilifeform: where do i buy a 2GHz lcd ?
mircea_popescu: and if i want to do a slideshow i do a for loop, and the machine cycles through the bmps as fast as memory updates, which is to say i get 2GHz ie 2 bn fps.
mircea_popescu: this (xy) thing is a raster artefact. i'm not fucking scanning the pixels.
trinque: but I'm speaking of the application layer; eventually you're talking about an X,Y position, no?
trinque: and the former maps nicely to being a CLIM backend, i.e. a framebuffer port of the thing wouldn't be that hard
trinque: I tend to agree with the former
trinque: I got lost somewhere in between pixels should be (x,y,color) and mount OpenGL
trinque: I can't just hide in this nice niche where I call (draw-circle* ...) and the thing does?
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't think you appreciate the horror of directx/opengl, for blessed lack of experience. but if you wish to get spooked and not be able to sleep ever again, do review the history of opengl 2006-2016 in context.
asciilifeform: i'd be satisfied even with the modest miracle of ~usable~ lcd not going up exponentially in price.
mircea_popescu: but i mean enough of raster gfx already, it's done.
mircea_popescu: if i want to see a 1mb page of "ram" on my display whop's to prevent me. "real time" wtf is that.
trinque: I suppose I'll just wait around for this before writing anything.
mircea_popescu: ah ? i must've missed it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i described this a few yrs ago
mircea_popescu: incidentally : the whole "what part of buffer to redraw" and the assorted nonsense comes from a time of scanning crts. i would be very much interested to see computing hardware built around a lcd paradigm. which is to say : no more hdds ; everything is flash rom, the "hdd", the "ram", the "display". arrays of x by y cells is all.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-19 00:18 asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is a piece of shit. stalled again.' mircea_popescu: 'i have a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111' mircea_popescu: 'here, have this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do i drive customers on that, feed my family' mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does this feed by family?' mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit there with it in.'
trinque: I walk one step at a time like any fella
trinque: the clim part gives me anything I'd have wanted from hypercard
asciilifeform: and i've been doing all of this with just head (have given up even on paper and pen) but this has obvious limitations.
trinque: I've been doing all sorts of things with CLIM bolted to postgresql lately
mircea_popescu: in honesty i always found this entire "reorder it by timeline" bulky and ineffectual. my mental teeth always did this wire clenching by itself
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-18#1556468 << heh. I use sqlite and emacs' helm for this, and no, it is not enough ☝︎
trinque: ahaha here's what I was just typing:
mircea_popescu: from her description it's what i'd use.
shinohai: !~later tell thestringpuller will ping in a bit, got pm's shut off again so I can concentrate
thestringpuller: and when I mention miners they stop taking calls
thestringpuller: nah these are irl people I meet and buy btc from who seem to have "deep supply", so I have on idea where they source their funds
thestringpuller: Every time I mention miners to a supplier they freak out and vanish.
thestringpuller: Why is ASIC procurement feel like I'm trying to set up a large drug deal????
mircea_popescu: i think i might be famous.
mircea_popescu: "Either a priapic clown or an embalmed witch are going to be running this country next year, and all I have is a case of fermented corn syrup." << lol!
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/i-dont-think-you-understand-how-credit-cards-work/ << Trilema - I don't think you understand how credit cards "work".
Framedragger: lol! my take on it: https://i.imgflip.com/1cjilb.jpg (image now available in imgflip's template img dir)
Framedragger: i don't know if it's better, but yeah a cronjob would indeed work. *however*, you then may not get around those exceptional cases where client requests page which is still processing from cronjob request - and cache already expired. unless you set it to be tightly timed i guess?
scriba: Logged on 2016-10-18: [04:38:11] <mircea_popescu> now it does. what hapopens i suspect is that the queue for the cache becomes overlong, then when a requyest hits the machine starts processing it, takes > 30 s or w/e it is, the connection timeouts
asciilifeform: i'ma put one in when i wake up.
mircea_popescu: now it does. what hapopens i suspect is that the queue for the cache becomes overlong, then when a requyest hits the machine starts processing it, takes > 30 s or w/e it is, the connection timeouts
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform phuctor/stats just times out. i suspect this happens A LOT. nething we can do about it ?
ben_vulpes: aw man i pooped in the logs
pete_dushenski: this is presumably what the employment alternatives look like. i) wash dishes for well to do couple, learn, maybe make productive connections along the way (you hope) ; ii) play 'flag the meanies' in your mom's basement ad infinitum.
pete_dushenski: ad is included in article and is eminently reasonable. nothing a pa or nanny wouldn't do. i seriously dun get it and it drives me up the fucking wall. the gall of these impotent shits. to think that it's evil for employers to have specific expectations rather than being 'universally' 'inclusive'.
Framedragger: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161017/#340 << gotta agree i guess. so it goes.
mats: i give it 1/2 odds usg packs their bags and goes home if isil is routed from mosul
mats: i.e, http://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/19/archives/of-kurds-and-kissinger-carter-and-conscience.html
mats: i'm sure the kurds lie awake at night waiting for the knife in their backs to materialize
mats: i don't know that much has changed
Framedragger: mats: since i guess you're following news more than me, i'm curious if you know anything about how the kurds in northern syria are doing, assuming anything new in the last couple of months? (not really following news there but just curious)
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what junk is in them. changes every year. maybe handicrafts, or w/e.
asciilifeform: i am having problem picturing this
mircea_popescu: mats ah i guess you're right, it never went past 50 mi.
ben_vulpes: i resent being used to make this point.
mircea_popescu: i did say outer space eh.
ben_vulpes: i throw it up. straight up. just in time for your railgun to go sailing through a relatively stationary cloud of shrapnel.
ben_vulpes: what materials strengths issues do i suffer in heaving them up there?
ben_vulpes: i'm seeing buckshot in orbit where a target will pass in the next 2 seconds.
mircea_popescu: and your 100kw won't actually allow you to make a laser strong enough to cut al alloy or w/e ther fuck i use.
mircea_popescu: well... you gotta aim more precisely than i do ; and light-matter interaction is much weaker than matter-matter
ben_vulpes: ho ho ho okay i see where this is going
ben_vulpes: i am more interested in the "never get close enough" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i fire them at a rate of three a minute, meaning each 10 gram pellet acquires an energy of 200kJ
mircea_popescu: alright. i shall employ this to accelerate 10 gram pellets ; at the usual loss of 99.99% i will then have available 10kW for my pellets.
mats: its not a typical artillery piece, depends who you ask i guess
mircea_popescu: ok. so for the interdictor : can i have 1 MW of power ?
asciilifeform: relatedly, i just picked up a b00k on coriolis force, and it has... basic programs in every chapter, as example. such nostalgic.
mircea_popescu: long range artillery is if i can bombard washington from vancouver.
mircea_popescu: em is very expensive. think : i want to shoot a ship 5500 km away. how do you em it ?
mats: i recognize that existing tech/tactics work well against railguns, they're not faster or longer range weapons than SM-2
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-17#1556053 << for the record, i support indiscriminate firing at pigeons. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 05:05 ben_vulpes: and i dun see how one can place slugs accurately
mats: on land you'd use passive, reactive armors like ceramics, composites, ERA, i don't think a ship could in practical terms carry it
ben_vulpes: and i dun see how one can place slugs accurately ☟︎
mats: i dun see how a ship could possibly defend against a railgun
ben_vulpes: so i know that salver is a dish and that salivate is to drool, and was dead convinced that "slaver" was "to drool" but congugated
ben_vulpes: i
asciilifeform: i thought that was 'infinite money and slaves'
ben_vulpes: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/fashion/modern-love-pregnancy-miscarriage-app-technology.html << Seven months after my miscarriage, mere weeks before my due date, I came home from work to find a package on my welcome mat. It was a box of baby formula bearing the note: "We may all do it differently, but the joy of parenthood is something we all share"
mats: i have read reports by DoD that indicate dissatisfaction with the Aegis system's autonomous detection and tracking
mats: i get that, i however haven't read any pentagon reports to suggest where that bound is at
mats: i dunno man, i'm not mp, i can't afford not-open-source intel
mats: yeah i think so
mats: i suspect these were also 'soft kills' though
mats: 'i can't properly describe what you believe so i'll use a word people commonly think is offensive'
mircea_popescu: i dun imagine teh isis can afford to lose their only port.
mats: i wonder how the peshmerga feel about coalition forces being too cowardly to put troops in the fight
pete_dushenski: i was thinking of the win against charles xii of sweden when peter i was at the helm at Lesnaia 9=[']0(not routing by swedes near narva)
pete_dushenski: speaking of peter i's artillery, militarily-inclined russophiles (aren't they all) will enjoy http://www.artillery-museum.ru/en/main-exposition/the-history-of-russian-artillery-up-to-the-mid19th-century.html
a111: Logged on 2016-10-16 12:48 mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i expect she hates him which is how she got to be a nanny in canada in the first place. "he gets in way of unipolar us world!!" in alt-statement.
asciilifeform: i was looking out of an airplane a few days ago and saw rows upon rows of windmill.
asciilifeform: as to why, and why, i suggest the armour/brick/whichever subcontractors.
mircea_popescu: i suppose as we speak the idiots with the return-fire thingee are pitching utility comps.
mircea_popescu: somehow i tohught he was there for a while, but he was just mayor
mircea_popescu: i suppose also possible. but i was guessing pete_dushenski fucks teenaged nanny not you know, 49+
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i expect she hates him which is how she got to be a nanny in canada in the first place. "he gets in way of unipolar us world!!" in alt-statement. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-10-15 05:16 mircea_popescu: no but i mean, evidently sustainable communities, not random dude plucked and cogged-in.
rarepepeforever: I'll be back in a few days after I make the card and get it certified. Then you can have 333 if you wish.
rarepepeforever: I mean who buys a pizza card for 5,000,000 (was worth $200 at the time) simply because I put that it is worth 10,000,000 on the card :)
rarepepeforever: I do it to destress