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mircea_popescu: sure. but while that is a practical problem, this is a mental bug.
mircea_popescu is smoking the "fuck you, you have no rights, engineer is not a person" blend, of the same exact make as seen in debate over "oh but proper V hurts mah self-importance of codrwriter"
asciilifeform: this is one of the reasons i wrote 'must have fpga, with quartz window'. you can inspect a ~regular~ geometric structure far more easily than any other kind
asciilifeform: until then, we are in a state of sin regardless of how.
asciilifeform: hence a method of printing one-offs MUST be discovered.
asciilifeform: until silicon can be made piecewise, like a printer page, rather than photographically by the million copies, we are stuck with it. (and antifuse costs 0 and eliminates problem, so i have nfi what mircea_popescu is smoking)
asciilifeform: i will listen to this nonsense after mircea_popescu has a plane built according to this philosophy and flies in it.
asciilifeform: but there is such a thing as antifuse.
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as replacement policy.
asciilifeform: there is such a thing as % yield.
asciilifeform: incidentally, ~every piece of silicon on the board has a debug port of some form, the cpu jtag thing is simply the handiest one, and the closest to being in some form documented.
asciilifeform: (and in what there is not, can be replaced in the post for a physically-indistinguishable version that does)
asciilifeform: (and its existence was, apparently, quite surprising to the monkeys, who never once gave a thought to subj of how mb is tested at factory)
asciilifeform: it isn't 'exploit', that was idiot media spin, it is simply a handy place to plant a widget.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all the jacking off and cumbiscuit eating, that thing is just a stupid "oh, jtags, can you make a windows program that keeps flashing them ???"
mats: unit dependent, if they're with a unit that has resources they usually go for eotechs afaik
asciilifeform: eotech makes a thing that comes with eyes you can implant in your ballsack ?
asciilifeform: mats has a pair of eyes in his groin ?
asciilifeform: mats: that scope makes 0 sense on a weapon designed for use at musketry range ?
mats: what is hard about zeroing a scope?!
asciilifeform: yes, this is supposed to be a tr0l0l, but still poorly thought through.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 17:36 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a lot of the guy's complaints are in the direction of "this is too heavy too hard too etc" reminiscent of "beautiful one tries to go to war"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508021 << go to a gallery sometime and pick up m16, it feels cheap, light, like a toy ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508006 << is this a reference? i should much like to know where ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's suppressive fire directed at pinning down the enemy ; and then there's suppressive fire directed at silencing that little voice in own head going "you're such a fucking idiot..."
asciilifeform: if you dun believe in suppressivefire, the correct rifle is a mosin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is a '1shot1kill' sort of fella , i get it
mircea_popescu: why the fuck not, let's redefine a cultural notion of fairness unbased on reality.
asciilifeform: because psychology: result is never 'normal rifle but even +9999 accuracy on a clear day'
asciilifeform: it is not a sniper weapon
mircea_popescu: (no, it's not that you can do it ONCE, after prepping for 10 minutes. it is that you do it every time in .6 seconds. that's correctly. it'\s a fucking rifle.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a lot of the guy's complaints are in the direction of "this is too heavy too hard too etc" reminiscent of "beautiful one tries to go to war" ☟︎
ben_vulpes: are you seriously going to drag a player piano out the airplane when jumping behind enemy lines
mircea_popescu: "your job is called being a whore, forget the journacrap"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508002 << when he decided to become a reddit celebrity ? ☝︎
ben_vulpes: bitch you will buy a three hundred dollar ancient craptop from the bazaar and learn2gpg
mircea_popescu: "AK-47: Crude and inaccurate bullet thrower designed by and for illiterate peasants. Chambered in a caliber that manages to cut the ballistics of a proper .30-caliber battle rifle in half without passing on any weight savings to the grunt. Ergonomics only suitable for Russian midgets. Archaic cable trigger spring, crummy sights, no sight radius to speak of, no bolt hold-open device, and a clumsy safety. Favorite infantry
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507975 << "when management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." ☝︎
asciilifeform: like a hand-crafted napoleon bicorn lovingly stitched from asylum bedsheets
asciilifeform: mats: we are dealing with a psychiatric, not technical, artifact.
asciilifeform: it isn't a wholly idiotic idea when applied to something you actually think you have a grasp of (e.g., the packets going into and out of your battlestation)
asciilifeform: 'your phone just downloaded a 200MB turd'
asciilifeform: 'the goal of Snowden and Huang’s research, according to their post, is to “provide field-ready tools that enable a reporter to observe and investigate the status of the phone’s radios directly and independently of the phone’s native hardware.” In other words, they want to build an entirely separate tiny computer that users can attach to a smartphone to alert them if it’s being dishonest about its radio emissions.' << and
asciilifeform: 'At approximately 3:14 p.m., Deutsche Bank transmitted to RBS Coutts a SWIFT payment order requesting that $700 million be credited to an account at RBS Coutts. The SWIFT message did not identify the owner of the RBS Coutts account, but the account number listed on the SWIFT as the recipient of the $700 million wire transfer was the number of the Good Star Account.'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507898 << this was a thing of beauty but i lost the link... ☝︎
phf: yeah, i see you replaced ctrl and alt keys from elsewhere (and a bunch of others obviously)
asciilifeform: the weird 'lock' key is a ctrl. (i was unable to source a correctly-shaped cntrl to go there, and did not feel like sweating over it at any rate)
mircea_popescu: aha. because you're copying me rather than copying the idiots with their "programmer's claw" in doing it. if you wrote 50k lines of code a year you'd have it too.
mircea_popescu: that's more than a writer writes, were it the good sort that actually does write.
mircea_popescu: yes, you do. you and me both, we've been pumping out 50k+ lines a year for years now right here.
asciilifeform: but to this day i have no weird nerve or carpal or whateverthefucks, because, perhaps, i am not a monkey, and do not bang the keyboard all day long
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:37 mircea_popescu: phf most people who spent as much as i have with computers a) wear glasses b) have various complicated nerve and tendon damage, esp wrist, elbow etc.
mircea_popescu: and they also became literate through a means, also specific and also apparently "unknown" today, in the "nfi" sense of "unknown" above.
mircea_popescu: which means a thing, specific and apparently unknown today.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:34 phf: asciilifeform: there seems to be a significant lack of modifier keys
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507904 << understand, ALL of the original driver electronics were removed, controller is mine, any key can be whatever i like. i have the middle of the arrows as a meta. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but in fairness, i would say i rely on a very specific sort of literacy. i have people do things for me! you lot, all of you, are the modern equivalent of a barony that is neverthelss being run by the ox-baron personally, by hand. because in the future we have this strange species of ox-man that "can". of sorts, really, only 80% of the can, but hey, who cares about broken fingers and other appednages as a result. HEAR THE OXM
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:52 phf: " Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude Test. Do you remap
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 05:21 asciilifeform: srsly when 'speechwriter' became a thing, it was already high time to say 'enough'
phf: " Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude Test. Do you remap ☟︎
phf: i think naggum had a quote about it
mircea_popescu: phf most people who spent as much as i have with computers a) wear glasses b) have various complicated nerve and tendon damage, esp wrist, elbow etc. ☟︎
phf: asciilifeform: there seems to be a significant lack of modifier keys ☟︎
phf: oh i didn't realize there was a whole series of these
asciilifeform: if anyone wants one of these things, you can wait a decade for it to show up on 'ebay' or the like, as i did, or you can get the modern reproduction, that someone actually makes, but be aware that it is a castrato (66 key) thing.
asciilifeform: all of the parts (piston, which is a standard 'model m' key), spring (standard model m spring, still made), cylinder (removable individually) and flapper (ditto) are standalone
asciilifeform: (there are no electrical switches in the thing. you can actually take a piss in it and it'll work.)
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 05:17 ben_vulpes: and all on a 6-axis arm with other 6-axis arms mounted on a ball that follows me around positioning the monitor and kb just perfectly ergonomically.
mircea_popescu: "clicked traffic" as the thing is called in the [porn] biz being about 500k to the bitcoin last i looked, sometime last year. meaning the entire yearly value of the global "online advertising" market is equivalent to a few bitcoin blocks, meaning in turn that a choice to occupy yourself with that thing is equivalent to a deliberate choice not to matter. nttawwt.
mircea_popescu: and if he weren't and instead did http://trilema.com/2014/askfm-laid-bare-or-whats-half-a-million-uniques-to-you/ he'd be pulling more. which isn't to say 16mn either, but the problem with "advertising" is that it being all fraud, the logical move is to buy the cheaper fortune teller, which is NEVER going to be "publisher".
phf: we had a thread about advertisement i think copule of times
mircea_popescu: take gawker. really, "billion pageviews a year" ? where is it ?
mircea_popescu: there's actually a lot of valuable data re eeuropean "advertising market" there as a result of me running a large intel project on the topic at the time.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile irl, silk road can't dispose of a kg of coke for 3 weeks over xmas ; and the "ad revenue guy" can't pay for his coffee.
phf: but just a reminder, he violated 5th crack commandment "never sell no crack where you rest at" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85YIezL8Q9A
phf: you understimate the amount of fun those little devices provide :> ukranian guy in poland raking estimated 16 mil in ad revenue, i'm sure he had bitches and bling, rather than you know live in a safe bunker and infosec all day
ben_vulpes: this was back when i considered it disposable and not a treasure, mind you.
ben_vulpes: i've wanted one of those for a while.
asciilifeform: i think this is largely a begging cup
asciilifeform: srsly when 'speechwriter' became a thing, it was already high time to say 'enough' ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507681 << wake me up when somebody without a speechwriter / ghostwriter runs. ☝︎
ben_vulpes: and all on a 6-axis arm with other 6-axis arms mounted on a ball that follows me around positioning the monitor and kb just perfectly ergonomically. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: i personally want a display that detaches.
ben_vulpes: because how are you going to cram a tall display into the portable formfactor?
ben_vulpes: anyways, laptop is not a workstation, we've done this thread.
ben_vulpes: are you not talking about a tall, instead of wide display?
ben_vulpes: but much like growing fond of fine wines, this is a habit best not acquired.
asciilifeform: the depressing thing about the crapple lappy (and i think i have the one ben_vulpes has, the maxint one) is that it makes me pine for a few square metres of its lcd
mircea_popescu: yeah well your warm saltine box that moves around molecule designs in a hologralcd is not yet on sale.
mircea_popescu: so yes, "gui" is for lamerz. there's no point in having a fucking button to click on like im serving mcfucksticks. there's no need to "shade" the "part of the window that shows you how to move it"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 00:45 mircea_popescu: alternatively, phpmyadmin is also just a script you can get standalone. tho in generall it's a case of "people haven't actually ever tried to cli mysql because nobody ever told them they could"
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i was barfing at the idea that phuctor is cleanly sliceable into a piece that lives on my box and sends csv to somebody else. very much own thing, from own thread..
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you understand that there's no difference between an "utf-8 character" and a number of ascii characters yes
phf: err, similar to varchar, not literally a varchar
phf: also bytea is a varchar, afair you can't put a size constraint on it, so scanning over a column of varchars has some kind of overhead
phf: ben_vulpes: you might benefit from sticking byte array into CHAR[] unless i'm misremembering psql constraints on what kind of chars can go there. because bytea is going to have a 4 byte overhead, numeric an 8 byte overhead
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes a prime example of why "helpers" aren't helpful
ben_vulpes: galls me on some level to think about a hash, which i concieve of as an integer, as a byte array or a set of chars.
ben_vulpes: without having to cast said to a NUMERIC
ben_vulpes: CHAR[] didn't make much sense to me, because a hash isn't instrinsically a set of characters, except insofar as a byte array can be seen as a set of characters, but which characters...