asciilifeform: and did quite easy work. what, not 1 of them wondered 'why' ?
asciilifeform: i am still thinking about the 'radium girls' mircea_popescu . for some reason most 'left'-flavoured historians don't mention the fact that they were paid 2-3x the market rate for 'generic unskilled gurl'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought the reason was petro->chickenfeed conversion and economics of scale.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629753 << the world of 'neuro-typical' folx who have 'no theorems to prove', and nothing with which to legitimately to busy themselves, is ugly indeed. these people oughta be occupied with raising ~actual~ chickens etc.☝︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aaah 'soft' jailbreak, was it, 'till next reboot'
asciilifeform: in every case it is the luser who breaks (by 'ooh i'ma UPDATE!111')
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: how would crapple break a properly jailbroken box ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: at one point (the last time asciilifeform gave half a shit, 2010 or so) it was considered ~impossible to get an emulator of whatever kind, past the censors
asciilifeform: 'i want to click on the pirate, not the beer mug'
asciilifeform: i tried once to play various 'scummvm' classics on a patched ipad, it was blergh
asciilifeform: yeah but they were generally made for mouse.
asciilifeform: in just about every case 'i wish i had a mouse, why is my cursor finger-sized'
asciilifeform: i haven't met a likable touchpad game, yet
asciilifeform: i actually have ~0 idea what specifically supports the 'mainstream' commercial existence of the ipad. (as in the old ebay thread with mircea_popescu , it turns out that asciilifeform's uses for various items are often quite nonstandard )
asciilifeform: arcades were a social activity, only partially about the game itself.
asciilifeform: dunno that it makes sense to deal with coin arcades and 'konsoomer'-portable gamez, as same animal
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was 'casual came' at any point -- in its ~commercial~ ( vs tetrises, alexey pajitnov ) phase of life -- ever anything other than this ?
asciilifeform: and this reminded me, did mircea_popescu ever write a piece re the 'radium girls' ? the ones that licked the brushes and rotted. they are brought up as darlings of the 'unions' era, 'wurker's rights', etc. but in actuality they not only licked the brushes but painted own lips, nails, jewelry, etc.
asciilifeform: quite unrelatedly, asciilifeform went through own and relatives' dwellings with geiger counter and turned up one of those 'barbaric' radium-dialed clocks (zinc sulphide long ago decayed, so no light, but mighty gamma.)☟︎
asciilifeform: but not only do i actually pay per kWatt/hr here (in summer time : TWICE: again to remove the waste heat!) and have quite limited space, but there are only so many p3 you can hang off ups.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even there, 0 reason for lan to be anything but GB
asciilifeform: trinque: for 'microscopic task but needs own box', i prefer something more like pogo, which is fanless, solidstate, and zero-maintenance. vs ancient clunking monster , howling like vacuum cleaner and filled with dying mechanical hdds
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no GBe -- not , imho, any kind of router.
asciilifeform: and unlike, e.g., most sun boxes, they have normal 'earthling' pci, and reasonably obtainable sdram.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629328 << these are surprisingly great 'cpu for the dollar', because ~severely~ underpriced , even for a junk market item : they're ~entirely worthless to mactards who would 'use as printed on the box', because last 7 or so crapple os versions will refuse to run on it. but potentially very valuable for, e.g., bsd user.☝︎
asciilifeform: i can entirely see mexicans taking a specific-something.
asciilifeform: (what'd make the pirates turn into a navy ? and whattodo after victory, and there are no moar galleons to take gold off?)
asciilifeform: mexican-war-with-usa makes approx as much sense as pirate war against spanish crown
asciilifeform: trinque: understand, i would much ~like~ to find something stimulating, inside that arse
asciilifeform: trinque: funnily enough, i spend a good chunk of my waking hours 'not ignoring' microshit's output, i earn bread by juggling microshitiana (dealing with, from various directions, malware)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: introducing the nonsensical 'original throughout' device ( nobody else, incl asciilifeform , had ) does not help mircea_popescu's argument
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu wants to inhabit a mental universe where 'there is no such thing as original technology' and xerox parc circa 1970s is exactly same thing as microshit today -- i can't possibly stop him.
asciilifeform: i stand by the statement: nothing which is original in microshitistan, is any good; and any which is good in microshitistan, is not the least bit original.
asciilifeform: i'd genuinely like to know what mircea_popescu takes issue with in this thread
asciilifeform: what useful piece can i cut out, and use outside of microshitistan ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629499 << as i understand 'innovative' is a barf trigger word for mircea_popescu , but i don't know of a more appropriate word. if q is re 'what useful things did you lift from microshit', and someone suggests 'fat16', i can only answer 'it was not innovation, did not originate from the loins of microshit.'☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu leases entire city blocks and probably operates in somewhat different planet.
