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mircea_popescu: there's many possible approaches to this ford we're not at yet.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a chip is a chip is a chip. it'll do whatever the fuck.
mircea_popescu: still present of course, not hobbist 1k dollar cost. but nothing compared to the 1trn foundry runs you
mircea_popescu: you ~could~ rearrange extant chips in an infinitely saner fashion for very little cost.
mircea_popescu: he usually misstates this as hav ing to do with cpu foundries etc, which it pointedly does not.
mircea_popescu: trinque the more important point he's making is that sanitization of software'd best start with motherboard redesign
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's certainly a LOT less meaningful to speak of some supposed linux-windows distinction than it was in 1997. this is what bumbling imbeciles a la ermin gun sirer aim to communicate, in their bovine fashjion, when they say "windows is perfectly safe" : not that windows is anything but the crap it always was ; but that they feel confident they've managed to smear it on everything so bereft of alternative one "sho
mircea_popescu: "what happened to computing ?" "it was captured by the craptree"
mircea_popescu: so basically, we make a usb diagnoser, you stuff it into mystery box, it spits out the equivalent of makefiles for it, you go to hot box, create image, plop it into mystery box and it boots ?
mircea_popescu: pestilentially common, kernel with 5k modules and 100k drivers
mircea_popescu: i guess it is. you were just uncharacteristically nice about it.
mircea_popescu: and this in the best case, a good half simply buy them to deny it to memory strokers in the hope of geting more $$$ later.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and re "folks", the elephant of sadness in the field everyone's been dancing around since forever is that none of the buyers buy for anything like a sane puyrpose. much like the 55 firebird buyer who isn't buying it in 2015 to make teenie boppers suck his cock in it ; but to drive it by city dumps and industrial zones which used to be a town and stroke his memories.
mircea_popescu: it's not like you aim to take the found machines to the kinko's and copy them into more exemplars.
mircea_popescu: but this is a red herring, because your stated aim with the archeology is to populate your head not your desk
mircea_popescu: this being the substance of the whoile discussion since yest : you claimed to want something you showed you have ; i deduced the confusion must be resolved. "concepts" in the sense of "metaconsiderations" aren't interesting ; concepts in the sense of concepts you already have.
mircea_popescu: yes but i suspect you don't actually know what the word "concept" means.
mircea_popescu: if the only way to get a kock gpgtron was to dig one out of the one clothing store in utah that accidentally got all the 18 evcer produced and sells one now and again when they stumble on the box in the basement -- would your idea of the gpgtron be closer or further from your current, and correct, idea of it ? which, unless i lost track, goes along the rails of "nothing in there is salvageable ; full rewrite" ?
mircea_popescu: wtf do i want a handblown crt for! and how much of it was ~the equivalent ?
mircea_popescu: there's that expression that there's two kinds of fools in this world, the kind that says this is old, and therefore good ; and the kind that says this is new, and therefore better. just because we're awash in type 2 idiocy from the ipaditiots and mactards dun mean the type 1 went away.
mircea_popescu: micro-mp used to spend so much time staring down early displays o brother.
mircea_popescu: in retrospect, i can't believe my eyes lived through it.
mircea_popescu: also trinitron more like 2000s. the 90s were atrocious, all that green.
mircea_popescu: "but mp, they were built to last. think, you could still have it!!" yeah. i could. and it'd be worth 25k in today's dollars, and it'd still be a 15 inch mcga or w/e the fuck it was
mircea_popescu still remembers making the very HARD fucking decision of not dropping 2k of 1990 dollars on a 15 inch monitor.
mircea_popescu: yeah, since bolix went the fuck away computing's not expensive at all
mircea_popescu: enjoy teh tv fiction, i say, tis as close as you're fucking getting.
mircea_popescu: oh incidentally, for the socialists in attendance : watch "quiz show". it's an utter piece of crap i couldn't comprehend why anyone bothered making until we got to the scene where the white priviledge guy apologizes for existing.
mircea_popescu: "roses are sweet, bruises are blue, i had a great time but not as great as your asshole is now."
mircea_popescu: vs "usg agency, why did you eavesdrop on trump and then lie about it and then lie about other things ?" "oh, WE ALWAYS DO THAT"
mircea_popescu: gotta love the "routine" device of the SOPS also. "john smith, why did you wait in a black van behind the highschool for the cheerleaders to come out, then chased one down, stripped her naked, tied her and took her to your van ?" "oh, i ALWAYS DO THIS!"
mircea_popescu: "oh no, that's just not poissible, who wouldn't want an obnoxious old woman." guess.
mircea_popescu: bitch... grow up. nobody fucking wants you. there's no space left for you.
mircea_popescu: dude is fucking frying them, and they're going through the predictable motions. "oh, trump will fry us. lol" "oh, trump is just saying so" "oh, he accidentally beat us up but he loves us"
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea what sort of frogbrains havwe to be in these brainboxes.
mircea_popescu: i would expect any host trying to make money with vm to have kicked him off
mircea_popescu: i never got much more from gates than from any other zigglar.
mircea_popescu: what, edison tried to blackball it and failed. counterfactuals make for poor support.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform then what the fuck are we talking about ? airbrake made bank.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski that dun sound like a vps. sounds like a proc spec ?
mircea_popescu: i've determined no such thing. i jus' said, i dunsee it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your proposed cut of the gordian knot was "let mp feel what i feel!!11"
mircea_popescu: this gives him an edge over ad hoc feelings, it's only feelings approach.
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu is in the position where he spent many years applying serious, scientific methods to the problem of knowledge classification.