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asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ever find it interesting that there are wankatronic societies like the 'amateur space' thing linked earlier, but nobody (has admitted to) sending a 100% amateur-built unmanned machine across, e.g., atlantic ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: not everything likes travelling via icbm
gribble: Bull Run River (Oregon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Run_River_(Oregon)>; Bull Run Watershed | The City of Portland, Oregon: <https://www.portlandoregon.gov/water/29784>; Portland's Water System | The City of Portland, Oregon: <https://www.portlandoregon.gov/water/48904>
gribble: The Battle of Bull Run Summary & Facts | Civilwar.org: <http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/bullrun.html>; Bullrun: <http://bullrun.com/>; First Battle of Bull Run - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run>
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: you drink bottled water don't you :P
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i actually found the 'igla' article while looking for... the battery.
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 18:16:06; mircea_popescu: in any case, strategically speaking, it will be a lot easier, cheaper and blood-economical to unseat the fiat atrocity supporting the welfare state by destroying the "industrial" paradigm.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-02-2015#1022459 ☝︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: and does one even need a rocket against a rotating-wing machine, or would a swarm of multicopters suffice.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the originals didn't even contain microprocessor.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the rocket described in the book is older than i am
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: betcha one could do considerably better - from first principles - with modern tech
cazalla: mircea_popescu, for sake of thestringpuller and mine private conversation, have you ever bedded a north korean woman?
mircea_popescu: ( http://trilema.com/2015/and-then-she-went-splat-on-the-asphalt/#footnote_5_60229 ref)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because that's SOP !
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i have nfi why you imagine the userbase is important << I don't but the inevitabilibty of such an endeavor (i.e. http://qntra.net/2015/02/us-political-crisis-may-impoverish-homeland-security-department/#comment-11399), doesn't seem like a good thing
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: they're trying for a usg mpex. << More like Reddit MPEX
cazalla: mircea_popescu, yeah i think it was bb that said we'd be lucky to turn 1% of it into reg readers
asciilifeform: (yes, mircea_popescu would probably point out that it is not a cannon, but a heavy machine-gun.)
asciilifeform: similar textbook for a cannon: http://portal.tpu.ru/files/departments/publish/VK_Machinko.pdf
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i'll add that the document is in fact a textbook for detachment commanders operating the rocket
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: some of the more interesting stuff is in the text - e.g., description of the molten-electrolyte battery; the sensor cooling system; the guidance loop per se
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the algorithmics are not described in great detail, but the waveforms representing the proportional-control mechanism are shown, and at this point the 'multicopter' folks have rederived all of it and then some
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: gorgeous diagrams << that thing contains perhaps 80% of the info required to construct the rocket.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 15:38:39; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu with regard to the 'abuse of statistical devices' outlined in note iii, the accomplished master of the art is a fellow named yudkowsky (search #b-a log). he isn't an idiot, bastard knows exactly what he's doing, and his cult is a veritable vacuum trap for thinking folks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's bait
mircea_popescu: in other news, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak-wzUv_FvY
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://portal.tpu.ru/files/departments/publish/VK_AkylovBaydakovVasiliev.pdf << even if you don't know ru, you may find this interesting for the diagrams. use and engineering manual to famous ru 'igla' ('needle') rocket.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty this has been going on for a while actually.//it just sounds worse when the internet is a public utility
mircea_popescu: people have to fucking realise, for once in their life, that a_) fuck them and b) it's not about what they want.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i read the foibles of al slightly differently. more as a failure to intellectually detach from usg
asciilifeform: if one were to read the data sheet (scan, http://www.155la3.ru/datafiles/2lb402_tu_1975.pdf ) will find that it had around 50-60 nSec propagation delay. which is pretty good for the period
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: related field - stage magic
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's a spin off of a spin off of a spin off, because when people develop a taste for a particular shit, why not enlist more orfices to produce it
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "pay everyone pretend money" << reminds me of http://americandad.wikia.com/wiki/Red_October_Sky from american dad
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 01:32:37; mircea_popescu: @ BingoBoingo : http://oglaf.com/rally/
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel argentina has a fixation on electing newspaper men. mitre, frondizi, etc.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: and what IS burning man but fuck club ? << not entirely this is about 1/3 of it. Another 1/3 is "Holy shit I'm on so many drugs what's even going on, how do I survive, OMG this is so fucking awesome I wanna run around and do nothing cause I have no obligations or worries at the moment." Another 1/3 is "Holy fuck that giant thing is burning holy fuck holy fuck that is fucking awesome." IMO Burns are probably the
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery << Plain OCR is normally sufficient for books without advanced mathematics as long as you are willing to liberate the pages from the spine. Test it with a sheetfed scanner sometime.
gabriel_laddel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frondizi_y_Kennedy_en_Estados_Unidos_1961.jpg
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: basic idea, if you recall, was same as in ordinary ac motor
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what's your finger made of ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, "cooperating".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik the only place the required - non-negotiably - tech exists - is in my skullcase.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doing any of it with mechanical articulation is a sad joke
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes or make more of them
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm actually pretty disgusted with "modern" "robotics"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes btw, daniela rus should be right up your alley.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'sexy' or not
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it's got death, no ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc the way it worked (works? i think, still exists?) is via a kind of secret wot
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: when do i get to die in a tank
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no objection as such, aside from 'gimme'
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah merely reference to a discussion in logs a few days ago
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: is that *your* harem's burn rate?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had to refuse the client
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at least his harem isn't 40k a month!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: sets the tone, you know?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes seems harmless enough.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel why the fuck would he do that.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i bet you could toss 19 out of 20 of'em for this
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: everyone.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes both genders ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel thgat the adults are not going ot be happy.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: know what in particular?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> and blondy in black dress over there's almost hawt. << reminds me of the intro line newcomers to pdx-burningman were subjected to without fail for years, presumably if the political correctness mob hasn't gotten to them yet still are: "are you hot?"
asciilifeform: only from gabriel_laddel's summary thus far
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel how do you know this, sight unseen ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a job if you gotta do xxxxx to keep'em coming
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i didn't think the thiel thing could get -more- snoreworthy
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: wai wut
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what, he buys bazooka ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: play nicely ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the u.s. military technical term for this is 'self-licking icecream cone'
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel truth.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel azn as in indian, but not chinese.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are the only folks for whom there isn't already $maxint in handouts
mircea_popescu: http://www.thielfellowship.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fellowship-banners_about-1280x460.jpg << is it me or it's mostly guys and mostly white ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i sent her an email. iron a shirt in case shows up.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah, zynga something.
asciilifeform: i can picture that if mircea_popescu ever opens a jail, all of the cages will open from the inside with a 32-bit combination lock. nobody will 'have to' sit in this jail
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is true in that, technically, i could cough up tomorrow's lottery number and play and then 'not have to' and no physical law prevents it
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:14:45; gabriel_laddel: can you predict exactly what a WoT enabled world will look like?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wai wat ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i dunno, i dun tend to spy on people writing code that much, i'm prolly the most ignorant in the room on that score.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to keep the lights on
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes bless you.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: perianne.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'his place' - thinking man who found, by accident or otherwise, an escape hatch from arbeit macht frei
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel it occurs to me the templeos guy is kinda high iq
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: eww opengl blackbox
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a perfectly good epidemiological work.
gabriel_laddel: http://youtu.be/xzTH_ZqaFKI?t=9m57s << neat, working software, with the foundations built by high IQ individuals
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no, but it does go into the subject of stupidity
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 06:13:09; gabriel_laddel: my point is that science does not advance "at random"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i gather, intelligence is only slightly heritable, but stupidity - is very
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can work without being any more than 'dismal science'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: preferably with closed filtration cycle