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mircea_popescu: and we're not even talking about the cases where the writer ISN'T FUCKING MONOLINGUAL like some sort of esl mongoloid. good luck with that.
mircea_popescu: basically it's 95% fail hits, most because no vocabulary. i don't think it'd pass the baccalaureate. wtf is wrong with people
mircea_popescu: this isn't even counting the failures of pretense, like supposedly chinese is misspelled because hey, gotta have capital, or organised is misspelled because hey, somebody cares what harvard thinks.
mircea_popescu: and holy shit what the fuck IS EVEN THE POINT of spell checkers. today it says pudicity is misspelled, yesterday it said vagal is misspelled, day before that earworm was misspelled, and unverbalizable and paddlings, and slavegirl and peni and snuck for fuck's sake. and on it fucking goes.
mircea_popescu: (unlike eg "biking naked", gardening naked makes a lot of sense. skin washes better than any garment, which is why sane societies have kids under 10 or so in the buff. way the fuck better to step on the anglotard notions of "pudicity" than to crimp the kids' style.)
mircea_popescu: aite, that sold me. ima make pasta in white sauce tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: anyway. three fucking kings did john, duke of marlborough make. just like warwick centuries prior.
mircea_popescu: well, latin idea originally, but anyway. latins couldn't bring themselves to care. i can readily see why.
mircea_popescu: possibly the best piece re englishittery, that story. the normans were fucking right and truly should have exterminated that most miserable race.
mircea_popescu: guy brought back the whole of the spanish colonial empire, england indian-gifted him a shitty palace.
mircea_popescu: shmucky mcschmuckson has the utmost respect for us as novel writers, note.
mircea_popescu: yes, but who were our victims ? we call ourselves web developers (we do ?) but what about all the wealth and priviledge ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: mod6 i had cashew paste (little butter, hint of balsamic, fenilgreek and tarragon) salmon. with a very fine bottle of chianti. just waking up from the food coma.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reddit commoner existed in the time of orwell just as well.
mircea_popescu: what duke of this called himself "a warrior" and what the holy fuck, i thought this guy was supposed to be literate ? wtf happened at, say, agincourt ?
mircea_popescu: he;'s basically interested into losers BECAUSE losers.
mircea_popescu: on the strenght of the text as it is could just as well been guywith molotov for the same money.
mircea_popescu: odd, figured prominently in the previous "we need isp" installment.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect by now there's any relation whatsoever between the mouth-like organ and the arm-like organ of the vaguely organised amoeba colony.
mircea_popescu: yes but it put together a maschinengewehr 42 when i followed wthem
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i ordered a kubinetes book but got instead an ikea box.
mircea_popescu: heck, if everyone forgot how to "web 2.0" tomorrow, this'd be a greater gain for human culture than the discovery of fucking penicillin.
mircea_popescu: why would anyone save the ajax pile of bullshit. "modern" web dev has no place in the present let alone to be preserved for the future.
mircea_popescu: trinque yes but not process and render it, is the thinking
mircea_popescu: hey, us public discourse is == marketing talk, and there's no marketing benefit in pointing out "real estate" is neither real nor valuavble.
mircea_popescu: ~the inner limit for what something like that can reasonably take, i figure. so... yeah.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i wasn't here for it, but one opf the places, tree fell over brought down power grid. ticoswarm, power back on 2 hrs later.
mircea_popescu: haven't seen good salesmen for a long while pre coming back here. you know that, BOTH a) not be obnoxious and b) talk to you. not one, or the other. fucking both.
mircea_popescu: way the fuck better than argentina, i'll tell you that. those idiots... god help them.
mircea_popescu: nah. it's pretty dirty but hey, you get inverters etc. otherwise, no, outage may be 10 minutes or such. they're just very serious, diligent people, drive up the hill fix it.
mircea_popescu: fortunately the soil isn't very good. if it were the rich black stuff, that sucks a lot of water, forget about it.
mircea_popescu: they build walls and shit to contain it, and are very good with trench gutters, foot deep etc.
mircea_popescu: rains daily, see ? and if you start sliding there's nothing.
mircea_popescu: they'd just have a bunch of disparate torsos collected in the valley.
mircea_popescu: they have some hills here that if it even lightly frosted, it'd just be farewell to arms
mircea_popescu: just couldn't get enough torque to get its fat ass up the grade. period.
mircea_popescu: they can't be arsed with switchbacks here. fuck it they say, make it 25% and let you drive in 1st for a few hours, what of it.
mircea_popescu: i suspect kid was trying to impress attendant slavegirl.
mircea_popescu: the lane i told him to switch to ? stayed fast. so THERE!
mircea_popescu: oh yeah, totally forgot to gloat. so today on highway going to town, crash in front of me. then on the way back... crash in front of me. this one actually made traffic crawl, so i told the driver to switch lanes. because he wasn't going in the faster one.
mircea_popescu: actually, that's the principal distinction between "matter" and "energy" as intuitively understood. matter sticks around. energy does not.
mircea_popescu: ok, but you're aware this is not really how radiation works. there's no electromagnetic linger.
mircea_popescu: can now and again see a line, gets 2nd year physicists all excited.
mircea_popescu: you can't really cold-fuse water's hydrogens, because the tightly bound oxygen works as a sort of equivalent of a moderator.
mircea_popescu: there's water in the air. but hydrogen, even lighter than helium, tends to either react or run off.
mircea_popescu: tritium results from hydrogen cold fusion, theoretically. what hydrogen ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron cold fusion tends to leave very specific residue however.
mircea_popescu: tecnically, i suppose fuel-air bombs are "directed [thermal] energy", for a very weak specification of "directed"
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i take the laser because notwithstanding the ample lossage generally discussed as "slope efficiency", photon beams are the most efficient em "weapons". actual ion beams are even worse than the 3-5%ish laser. so you know, someone somewhere had to burn 50 TJ or so to deliver the same effect, plus whatever the intervening air ate up. you know how air looks if traversed by a TJ laser ?
mircea_popescu: standard kerosene is 46MJ/kg. the boeing carries about 63k liters, and kerosene density is about .82
mircea_popescu: well yes, as a matter of fact i keep doing that math. it keeps coming up here, about how a liter of gasoline is 1.5 MJ and there ain't no electric battery even come close etc.