asciilifeform: report to #a, herr lurker, get yer uniform & spade . dun let life pass by while watching .

asciilifeform: contemplated strictly as archaeologist's spade, rather than some continued 'legit' existence for the sadformat.

asciilifeform: it's 100% spade

asciilifeform: will also add, some problems my spade dun work on, and take unseemly long time of 'wtf did you do' to even convert into spadeable form with the tooling available to asciilifeform

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at all times i try to keep some reserve of unallocated spade cycles

asciilifeform: btw while we're on subj of spades, asciilifeform is not ( contrary to the apparent picture ) averse to taking input re where to spade.

asciilifeform: if i had 100% 'where to spade' , we'd be shooting enemy from atomic dirigible with death ray just nao, rather than this thread.

asciilifeform: all i got is , 99% spade, and occasional bit of 'where to spade'

asciilifeform: i aint got so much else than spade.

asciilifeform: pretty much errything i do is spade, mircea_popescu !

asciilifeform: spade !

asciilifeform: (not 'emacs' per se, but e.g. slime. you couldn't pay me to write lisp without slime or equivalent, just as not even gulag inmates will dig with hands instead of spade )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729056 << where didja bury it, mircea_popescu ? i didn't bring my spade but can get at the shop next to jooanathecow!1, ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: and i'm sure he digs trench faster with excavator than with rusty sapper's spade under fire also.

asciilifeform: mod6: think of ffa as a soldier's entrenching spade. you wouldn't dig a foundation for a new house with it. but it is bare naked simple, + adequate and entirely so for entrenching, and for the occasional bout of hand-to-hand.

asciilifeform: and yeah lappy is to actual comp as sapper's spade is to excavator.

asciilifeform: spade handle points the thing more or less where you point your hand.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been lifting the rocks for a while. but i do it with sapper's spade , but as i understand you did it with bbet's foot ?

asciilifeform: it is really a matter of 'malicious twerp will level more houses with bulldozer than with spade'

asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> well, specifically what triggered me was the proposition that "this man that is doing a bad job would do a better job weith better tools" << now, if it were simply a matter of strength and weakness, one could argue that 'more folks could dig well with bulldozer than with spade'

asciilifeform: normally implies spade handle or the like

asciilifeform: when i explain to folks why i dislike programming on available systems, i sometimes use example that it is rather like being a fellow who likes gardening, but there was a thermonuclear war not long ago, and you gotta sift the soil with sapper's spade in one hand, geiger in the other, and there won't be much sunlight to be had either.

asciilifeform: dig his grave << they usually give you the spade.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: man with sapper spade can entrench himself in less than an hour.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo owns a sapper spade?

asciilifeform: nope, that's a sapper's spade.

asciilifeform: of these epics. First, the author rarely appears alone, sharing space with two or three others. Often the collaborators are Ph.D. students who are routinely doing most of the spade work on some low grant in the hope of climbing the greasy pole. Dividing the number of titles by the author's actual contribution probably reduces those hundred papers to twenty-five. Then looking at the titles themselves, you'll see

asciilifeform: rithm: everyone knows you sharpen a sapper's spade for zombies, not axe.