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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, you don't understand.
the principal wank of ustarded princess is
that ~someonew wants her useless snatch~.
mircea_popescu: "After investigators closed in, one airman deserted
to Mexico." << heh
shinohai: anywho, appears air force has graduated from bath salts
to more grown-up hallucinogenics
shinohai: blog is for personal
tidbits, in no way meant
to parallel qntra
lobbesbot: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: i
thought you were complaining about having
too much work. now not enough ?
trinque: mquin (~mike@freenode/staff/mquin): :[Global Notice] Seems
that was premature.
There are ongoing issues with services
that are being looked into - please bear with us << asciilifeform shaping fleanode policy now
too!
trinque: looks like I got a few notices about
them herping with NickServ
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform,
they're notoriously bad at erorr messages.
trinque: are
the dashes a fake account?
mircea_popescu: MOST of
these "need 5000 miners and 3000 forgers and 120 assemblers" etc are gone now.
mircea_popescu: that's
the point here. consider 1950s process
to make fighter jet. "iron ore is in ground -- must be
taken
to conveyor belt by hand because no sewing machine sophisticated enough
to do
this yet" ;
then conveyor belted all
the way
to furnace, but "has
to be poured by hand because no machine" ;
then "has
to be polished by hand because no machine". and so on.
mircea_popescu: and operator will do what operator does and
there you go.
mircea_popescu: which means
that yes, if
tmsr builds a drone assembly line, it will work as designed.
mircea_popescu: but yes, evidently
they can.
this was after all
the fucking point of even fabricating fgs / getting isp up etc : we CAN, as a factual matter, operate.
trinque: I said
this in
the log-line
that linked it
trinque: semidisposable drones can be built in
the garage, was
the claim
trinque: in response
to whether one man could hit many
targets himself
trinque: I proposed
the manufacturing process for *drones*
mircea_popescu: trinque, i have serious reservations re an item with broken design. it's a little bit like reading ancient greek imaginary descriptions of places "they heard exist", i have
trouble digesting.
mircea_popescu: and renaming "x -- will
take an inordinate amt of doing" as "x -- impossible" is a category error.
mircea_popescu: but
the statement made, "x -- impossible" is very different from
the correct, "x -- will
take some doing"
mircea_popescu: for instance earlioer -- i was enjoying a bowl of delicious soup made yesterday. kitten slings by, pours herself a bowl
too.
then she discovers -- a dead beetle in
there. it's beetle season,
they're crazy. under pemra lights
there's an inch
thick beetle soil.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-19 03:54 asciilifeform: (iirc we had a
thread where i described how corporate ameritards, if given a problem like phuctor, would happily soak up a few $mil and megawatt of iron)
mircea_popescu: and mircea_popescu only sees
this if he asks specifically, because yes, mircea_popescu has friends. so does asciilifeform. everyone only sees some portions.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, yes, specifically, "i expected something else". "but why did you expect ?" "What do you want me
to do, sit ?!".
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 20:01 asciilifeform: observe,
the problem dun exist if you already have your own pyongyang and can happily put a megawatt station
there and invite whoever objects,
to pound sand up his arse
mircea_popescu: the cognitive articulation of
the complaint is
thus : 1. i understand deeply
the
trees of implications of a few simple rules (ref
http://trilema.com/2018/technology-and-governance/ ) ; 2. i apprehend a novel object and create a mental model for it ; 3. i discover perceptible reality does not play well with
the product of 2 ; 4. i complain.
mircea_popescu: complaints universally happen in proportion
to a certain mental structure.
mircea_popescu: from managerial experience
this is very much not a factual point.
trinque: who knows, pretty detailed videos
the guy's posting
trinque: rednecks rebuild junkyard engines all
the livelong day, if we're seriously imagining
that suddenly we're back
to grand soviet ideas and only buran makes
toilets, space ships, dildos
mircea_popescu: eh, i don't imagine anyone but alf could seriously contemplate
the "fabrication difficulties". gimme a break, i can and have bought machining
tools
that'd have been worth "hal;f
the empire" in 1935 for a pittance.
they make complex shaped metal sheets, and are cheap as fuck
trinque: all I'm pointing
to is
the c&c milling + carbon fiber process he's using, not
the design of
the plane
trinque: nah,
this
thing has a rear prop
mircea_popescu: the commie notion of "den of prostitution" as fit
to put on film... o brother. RIGHT
THERE is why driving
TR past any value
the idiots could survive is 100% justified.
mircea_popescu: in unrelated lulz, "faleze de nisip" is fucking hysterical for its montage of "man goes
to visit den of prostitution after his obnoxious gf gets uppity and moves out".
trinque: the linked item uses a glorified car engine;
these... are available
trinque: if any of
them had
the sense
to stop at
the scale model and make
that a drone instead,
there you go.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-24 17:31 mircea_popescu:
today it's fucking
trivial, wtf, make planes, what's
to keep you.
danielpbarron: that paricular line
though,
the 50 acres including creek and forest, for same price
mircea_popescu: "deserted hinterland" is never approximation of "world depopulated of idiots", because
the former is deserted ~because everyone chose
to move somewhere else~, and
the smart are more capable of enforcing
that choice ; whereas
the latter is deserted ~because idiots were killed~.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, no ; because oklahoma was selected for idiocy over
two centuries. you know what brain drain is, yes ?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-24 17:29 mircea_popescu: instead of you having
to contend with 5mn other idiots
trying
to live in
the same state ; you have
to contend with only 50k. as a result, all real estate available consists of plots in excess of 50 acres, which include a creek, and forest. goes for
the same price as you pay now, but it is what it is.
mircea_popescu: phf, is
there a lot of romanesque, scifi etcetera work missing from your blog ?
phf: "month 12, i BingoBoingo will marry my daughter and with her start
the most pure blood line" etc. etc.
phf: "month 6 in
this godless, accursed land. last night as
the fever broke
the captain died, since
the chaplain died a month ago,
the men had
to hold service, however sparse it was"
BingoBoingo: Underprepared gringo runs off
to orcistan, gets done in not by human hazards, but an ancient killer is what I am guessing
mircea_popescu: this is
the sort of objection
that can only be resolved by historians.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i'm just picking on him. but anyway -- very large leverages are in fact both experimentally demonstrated and
theoretically predicted. and
the "someone else" argument is not germane -- i didn't specify who joe is ; if you object
to my presumption
that you'd be willing
to work by including you, by all means, we could say sally instead. you
think
that does anything ?
BingoBoingo: Well,
the
thing about ad copy is you gotta have economy of words. Last place you want eyes glazing over is where you are selling.
ben_vulpes: gonna work it more or should i pick it up from here? fine starting point i
think (will wait for contradiction), i can fill in
the details.
BingoBoingo: But
the idea is as more offerings happen, (2nd shared account machine, etc)
the page structure has room
to eat
them.
BingoBoingo: It could do with more links
to "how
to" pages including
the most current Republican GPG setup guide