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asciilifeform: ( 'trim' is the procedure whereby space marked empty by the fs, is made known to the write-levelling controller )
asciilifeform: otherwise your disk will burn out in half or less of the time.
asciilifeform: lobbes: the bigger ssd, the longer life, consider why
lobbes: Just ordered my 480gb ssd for my soon-to-be trb node. Hopefully big enough, but after review of the logs it sounds like the things die long before they fill
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in monkeystan, https://archive.is/6t8bO >> 'The NYPD has to scrap the 36,000 smartphones it gave cops over the past two years because they’re already obsolete and can’t be upgraded, The Post has learned. The city bought Microsoft-based Nokia smartphones as part of a $160 million NYPD Mobility Initiative that Mayor Bill de Blasio touted as “a huge step into the 21st century.”'
a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 06:07 mircea_popescu: i am very happy with the computer interfaces as were available cca 1960.
asciilifeform: if usg were to unban it, it'd take over the american market overnight: deathstation !
asciilifeform: picture the 'realism' !
a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 06:11 hanbot: hey, if they keep pushing for things getting easier, eventually the computer will boot and shoot the user, who no longer has to confront the pesky toils of living.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-05#1710808 << this, in the form of the comp that actually kills you when you die in world of whatevercraft etc, is an ancient dream. and pretty sure that ~every kid reinvents it.
asciilifeform: ( the people who gave us shitty kbd and gorilla-arm, the heathens refer to as 'hci'. )
a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 06:09 mircea_popescu: all the progress in terms of "BCI" has been shittier keyboards and latency in the machine. noty.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-05#1710807 << 'bci' has 0 to do with keyboards, shitty or great, it's that thing where they drill into yer brain and put electrode. so far worx well enough for quadriplegic to no longer be stuck with ye old blink-morse, nao has 2d mouse cursor ( this however is not new, decade or so iirc )
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
hanbot: hey, if they keep pushing for things getting easier, eventually the computer will boot and shoot the user, who no longer has to confront the pesky toils of living.
mircea_popescu: all the progress in terms of "BCI" has been shittier keyboards and latency in the machine. noty.
mircea_popescu: like some god damned "restaurant" / morgue of some roach motel, "keep bringing the pasta in, dwayne, who cares it's 9 months old. they're paying for it eventually!"
mircea_popescu: in fact, there has been NO improvement in the field. gorilla-arm touch screens are exactly the equivalent of the "NEW! BETTER! MODERN! SLEEK! WILL TAKE OFF ANY DAY NOW!!!" "3d vision" crap. comes back on a 17.8 year period like some fucking comet of stupid, "hey, maybe they'll like it this time"
mircea_popescu: i am very happy with the computer interfaces as were available cca 1960.
hanbot: mircea_popescu> what['s "bci" supposed to be in human language ? "Brain-computer interfaces allow you to manipulate computers and machinery with your thoughts." i.e. 'mirror mirror on the wall, who's the bestest of them all? (me! me! me!)', i'm guessing.
mircea_popescu: + the logs, goes without saying.
mircea_popescu: the naggum archive, though epistolary in stile, also much appreciated in these halls. though prolly worth more for the commentary than for what it says.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 04:06 ppsk: are there any other blogs worth reading, similar but not necessarily the same as Mircea's?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-05#1710756 >> sure. thelastpsychiatrist.com is pretty good. oglaf.com is also pretty good.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 03:51 asciilifeform: 13:20 < eb3c90> I like the idea of BCIs , but not found a computer I trust enough to interface with yet.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: This is not one of the supported markets. Please choose one of ['bcent', 'okc', 'btcn', 'coinbase', 'cbx', 'btce', 'bfx', 'btcavg', 'btcde', 'krk', 'bitmynt', 'btsp'] or 'all'
BingoBoingo: Sometimes they cooperate
BingoBoingo: Also, make sure you get to a healthy weight by the time you get to the 2015 logs, or you can't say you weren't trigger warned.
BingoBoingo: ppsk: Anyways if you want to get caught up, read the logs for 2013 and the past six months.
BingoBoingo: ^ Brought to you by the latest innovations in Lulzcasting
a111: Logged on 2014-06-04 00:08 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
ppsk: Its strange, you all seem to be involved in rather significant events in the world, but you wouldn't know it from interacting with any easily accessible source of information, and certainly not from interacting with the redditard crowd
jhvh1: 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
BingoBoingo: Acceptance is the answer. You don't *have* to be such a downer about things.
ppsk: are there any other blogs worth reading, similar but not necessarily the same as Mircea's?
ppsk: is there any reality where you can read that line and not automatically imagine it in an austrian accent
asciilifeform: 12:36 < TMA> eb3c90: which somewhat bothers me, because I feel I need to be autonomous, for I am unable to cooperate meaningfully [as measured by not ripping off/not being ripped off]
asciilifeform: 13:20 < eb3c90> I like the idea of BCIs , but not found a computer I trust enough to interface with yet.
asciilifeform: in other lullatronics,
mod6: <+shinohai> I almost hate the fucking word `blockchain` by now << these guys are funny huh?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-04 18:14 shinohai: I almost hate the fucking word `blockchain` by now
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-04#1710722 << it's impossible not to end up hating the descriptive words the niggers try to make into their pathetic "brands".
a111: Logged on 2017-09-04 11:51 phf: problem is that nickserv doesn't say that anymore, the message is still the same, but it now adds some control sequences that i think make the font bold or italic or something in the legacy irc clients (???)
shinohai: I almost hate the fucking word `blockchain` by now
trinque: mark of the beast, eh danielpbarron ?
trinque: asciilifeform: http://archive.is/LTf4O << relatedly "We see it as a stepping stone to a future where central banks issue their own [cryptocurrency] at some point." says UBS reptile
asciilifeform: Andrea Suisani, Peter Rizun, Peter Tschipper, Andrew Stone, Andrew Clifford, Stefan Mathews, Prof. Victoria Lemieux, Prof. Chen Feng
hanbot: ty phf, i'll try that. also the bot identifies as me (grouped to my acct); if it was expecting bot's nick maybe that's a problem...
a111: Logged on 2017-09-04 11:51 phf: problem is that nickserv doesn't say that anymore, the message is still the same, but it now adds some control sequences that i think make the font bold or italic or something in the legacy irc clients (???)
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-04#1710704 << hm, don't think I've modified that for deedbot; how'd I be getting around it? that said, stripping the nonsense if present sounds like a sane patch.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
phf: looking at my code, i have the whole cond form (i.e. http://btcbase.org/patches/ircbot-genesis#L152) wrapped in (let ((msgtext (remove-if (lambda (c) (member c (list (code-char 1) (code-char 2)))) msgtext))) ...) which is a bit lazy, but works
phf: problem is that nickserv doesn't say that anymore, the message is still the same, but it now adds some control sequences that i think make the font bold or italic or something in the legacy irc clients (???)
a111: Logged on 2017-09-04 06:58 hanbot: say trinque : tyvm for making this ircbot & post. i can get it to connect and authenticate, but not to join a channel (target channel was given along with port nick etc). can i make it join after it's connected?
hanbot: say trinque : tyvm for making this ircbot & post. i can get it to connect and authenticate, but not to join a channel (target channel was given along with port nick etc). can i make it join after it's connected?
BingoBoingo: lol at the social engineer called out http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=8846
asciilifeform: prolly same thing as to the german
mircea_popescu: speaking of this, whatever happened to the alf chick.
asciilifeform: gotta ask Framedragger to include http/https snapshots in the next go-around.
asciilifeform: nao if only any of these were live today.
asciilifeform: ( bernsteintronic phuctorator dun care how many, nor ever uses the individual factors per se for anything )
mircea_popescu: find one bad key, find another 8 keys weak to the previously unknown other-prime
mircea_popescu: interesting how the phuctored list goes longer over time
asciilifeform: the overhead of 'general purpose db' is ludicrous
mircea_popescu: what could have possibly happened. went back into the soup that spawns them.
mircea_popescu: aaand in other lulz from long ago, http://trilema.com/2013/were-all-one/ "wtf is this S.NSA garbage"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> maginumberz are evil. << They also have boring tulpas
PeterL: in implementing keccac, do we really need to have special case functions for 256 bit and 512 bit outputs? couldn't we just define it as the variable length output function and then if somebody wants 256 bit output they just choose that as the length?
PeterL: speaking of github, a while ago I was reading through some random code there, and they had a variable which was about 75 characters in length. I understand trying to make your variable names meaningful, but that is just absurd!
asciilifeform: i guess THIS is what they put on shithub to 'replace' the original that was deleted
asciilifeform: PeterL: use the subset of ada shown in ffa. i.e. no oop, no finalizations, no tasks, no array concatenation, no heap allocation.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 16:44 mircea_popescu: one major point is that other than mpfhf which has been well implemented thanks to peterl, sina and ben_vulpes (and to some degree researched -- speaking of which, still cooking ben_vulpes ?), there's keccak which HASNT yet been implemented much ; and we really could use a fixed-block hash function that's any good.
PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-02#1709989 << I was reading through the keccac documents, got about 90% of it implemented in python, then said this is ugly and horribly inefficient, I should try ada, and have been leaning ada the past couple weeks
PeterL: my brother-in-law said he tried it, the fires smelled horribly of dogs (he has 3 dogs)
PeterL: and what synthetics, it is mostly cotton fibres
PeterL: it is just to get the fire going, you only need a pinch
asciilifeform: ew synthetics nasty
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 22:50 BingoBoingo: Ah fine, I'll start keeping the sawdust/bar oil slurry
PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1705864 << for starting fires, collect the lint from your dryer, mix in a plastic zip-lock bag with equal volume of shortening
mircea_popescu: "and who did you see at the crime scene ?" "Other Person" "Ah, so not this one ? Thank you. Your honor, no further questions."
mircea_popescu: and speaking of "reality winner", why not go all out with it ? Other Leigh Person.
trinque: only point I'm looking for an operator fee, can then do as many ops as one likes.
mircea_popescu: ah and you keep the 4821 ?
trinque: in fact my fee for the bot operation comes at time of deposit. say you want to deposit 5btc. it may ask you to deposit 5.00004821.
mircea_popescu: ah ah. right, then nm.
trinque: they're distinguished by amount
mircea_popescu: see, way it works is, acct requests a deposit address. you look if you have one, if you don't you create and communicate. if it gets paid you sweep it, and remove it off "there's one". if it isn't paid you just reuse it next time
mircea_popescu: and you don't really have to generate ANOTHER one.
trinque: if that doesn't bother anyone, can remove the step, yep.
trinque: the thought re OTP is if I don't force people to verify one, I'm letting allcomers generate "chosen-plaintext" for a particular key
trinque: then re-ran
spyked: ah, like the ones they use in switches! yeah makes sense
asciilifeform: you have wires to all of them regardless, why not as all-of-them 'where is S'
asciilifeform: that was the meat of 'db chip' concept. idea is, flipping through N memory locs one by one, to search, is retarded
spyked: mircea_popescu, o, I see. also, for some reason the scenario in original trilema post sounds much more plausible today. if "gpu" monster, then why not dbpu.
danielpbarron: i chose to post the archived link because the original gives 403 forbidden error in lynx
spyked: the question is rather which subset is suitable for building in hardware, and I guess this reduces to bounds checking and maybe other critical run-time parts (does ada have gc?)
spyked: also, there's the memory model. lisp machine "cells" are very elegant, while algol-like languages seem pretty muddy on that part. ftr, I have never seriously programmed in ada (closest thing to it was pascal)
spyked: IMHO could be separated from "compilation" (could as well be part of ada assembler, or "program loader" if there's such a thing).
spyked: stumbled upon http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-02#1692820 <-- *theoretically* (where theoretically = I'm mostly pulling this out of spyked arse, so hold on to eggs) possible. problems as far as I can see are 1. no. of transistors, 2. arch/microarch design, e.g. how to use general-purpose registers (assuming there are gp registers there); and I assume there might be bigger problems, some of which mentioned by asciilifeform. static checking
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
hanbot: Install `ircbot`. << basically am curious if there's anything that eschews this
a111: Logged on 2017-04-27 19:09 Framedragger: btw there are like 770 people sitting and talking on ##crypto, it might not even be 100% hopeless, curious if they would respond well to FUCKGOATS advertising
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-27#1648773 << it was ##crypto , Captain_Beezay, and the item in question was "onerng".
mircea_popescu: the mother as daughter's fashion accessory. gotta accessorize! and match those brown tones!
mircea_popescu: and bad blood on all sides, "oh the capitalists are corrupt and stealing from the people" "omfg these fucktards just destroyed the industry".
mircea_popescu: (kinda how socialist "economics" ends up fucked in the ass.)
asciilifeform: say yer house came with a few tonnes of firewood. then phriend asks, how much worth of wood you burned that winter.
mircea_popescu: costs well north of a million dollars to even find someone who can be arsed to explain to you the difference.
mircea_popescu: i can't remember what the "just as good" piece of cardboard footwear they were brandying about, but anyway.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-24 21:58 phf: asciilifeform: your thing is existentially terrifying, it demands a lot from the "user" (not sure it even accepts the notion of user) when they look at it, they see a glimpse of own mortality
mircea_popescu: and besides there's already a rng.
mircea_popescu: recall, there was a previous #humanfund thingee we visited, and there was an expert there was gonna advise me advices and things.
mircea_popescu: to the let me fish it out.\
mircea_popescu: and if there's no adult males involved in the active humiliation of females and their spawn, the realisation never occurs, "hey, ten tons of feelers and empty verbiage from me ain't work a buck, and ten minutes of that guy's applied time can buy the whole caravan of us cocksuckers".
asciilifeform: ( i actually egged him on in beginning, because hey, a replication is a replication, the more hostile audience the better )
a111: Logged on 2017-09-03 03:18 mircea_popescu: just the clue cptn breezy needs is actually north of a million bucks ; as proven by the fact that all the cptn breezys who won the loterry still couldn't afford to buy it.
mircea_popescu: woman interacting with usg. "oh noes, it wasn't like the risotto. i felt full after the risotto."
BingoBoingo: "failure to mirandize" isn't going to get the fuckers off for leaking the yellow tracking piss dots
BingoBoingo: From the fake alt-Qntra trying to cover its own ass for shitgnoming https://archive.is/ooCb6
BingoBoingo: In other wads of wank: "A potentially critical pretrial battle, however, is brewing right now, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Winner — the 25-year-old Air Force veteran and ex-National Security Administration contractor indicted under the Espionage Act for allegedly leaking a top-secret document — has accused the FBI of violating her Miranda rights. Winner’s lawyers are arguing that any alleged confession should be bar
mircea_popescu: just the clue cptn breezy needs is actually north of a million bucks ; as proven by the fact that all the cptn breezys who won the loterry still couldn't afford to buy it.
mircea_popescu: this perennial "i don't understand why computer costs money, i got mine at walmart" and "hey, i daydream things all day long, why should there be a difference when actual items are involved" isn't going to be engaged on an equal basis.
asciilifeform: ( truly adventurous souls, also try the 'microwave foundry' recipe... )
asciilifeform: dun need anything bigger than the pictured bucket.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-03 01:20 mircea_popescu: and in other re-industrializations, https://blog.za3k.com/blast-furance/
a111: Logged on 2017-09-03 01:48 mircea_popescu: but it is easily north of 1mn. and this is actuarial costs, rather than "What';d it cost intel to reproduce".
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-03#1710440 << well to nitpick , given as schematic and rtl are on the www, a one-eyed beggar from calcutta could, in principle, reproduce, dun need the majesty of wintel
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-03#1710438 << all the public numberz are in the broadcasts, kanzure
asciilifeform: in other shitreich lulz, http://archive.is/l0Raz
asciilifeform: nao dafuq would i want there, lol
BingoBoingo: The only difference to alf directions vs local is how long alf stays on US 50
BingoBoingo can even offer directions to there that asciilifeform could follow. Jump on US 50 headed west, Continue on US 50 for some time. Turn South from US-50 to IL-127, drive another 20 ish miles
BingoBoingo: Nashville, Illinois: Home of the honest Superintendent of Schools https://archive.is/46ygc
mircea_popescu: the remnants of james clark are pretty entertaining. and the dood is publishing at trilema levels, check him out, dozens of items a day1
mircea_popescu: but it is easily north of 1mn. and this is actuarial costs, rather than "What';d it cost intel to reproduce".
mircea_popescu: cuz i fear "officious intermeddler" may get the .wik treatment if deployed.
mircea_popescu: i was talking about you. i did say see #eulora. you opted not to. this dun work, it's a bad habit, the sooner you shake it the better.
kanzure: he is the anti-fenn but still should be good at privacy so wtf
mircea_popescu: and in other re-industrializations, https://blog.za3k.com/blast-furance/
BingoBoingo: Sorry, corrected. It was Ricard Spencer's mother, not Anglin's
shinohai: "Anglin is accused of publicizing the existence of an organized campaign of harassment against his mother by a Pantsuit busybody" <<< gulden
shinohai: I'm gonna freeze gcc version 4.9.4 on website soon as it seems to be only version thus far that will build tmsr related stuff for me without shitting the bed
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 22:49 mircea_popescu: they are up to gcc SEVEN ?!
spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-02#1710390 <-- aha, "agile". let alone version numbers, the breaking changes they introduce from one version to another seems to grow exponentially. progress!
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-14#1481878 << would a sort of bibliography/encyclopedia be useful in the lordship's opinion? have entries for figures that come up often; luby, naggum, etc. obviously these are googleablelier than the dictionary entries, but might benefit from the trilema, # or no #, treatment...?
mircea_popescu: they are up to gcc SEVEN ?!
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 20:04 phf: i'd say it's more like 80s lego and modern lego (if you haven't seen, now it's all >50% custom per-toy parts, that can be snapped to a traditional lego coupling, but otherwise non-universal)
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 20:02 spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-02#1710087 <-- so far so good. building icestorm tools, pnr, verilog synthesis works after adding clang and other assorted crap. will work out the arduino part later.
asciilifeform: i meant effect of the reveal
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 18:01 shinohai: Meanwhile, I invited the alleged instagram haxor https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1133449 here for an interview and tips on how to keep a website up when "facebook is buying up all the doxagram tld's"
a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 22:38 mircea_popescu: teh very respectable southern poverty law center. and i bet you bitcoin to donuts they didn't actually pay jack for it, either.
asciilifeform: they were in drivers seat for ww1, which nailed that world.
mircea_popescu: notice that britain sunk slowly while those "stupid" were in charge and utterly collapsed once o's own bretheren took over.
asciilifeform: at any improvement was possible. Difficult though this was, they achieved it, largely by fixing their eyes on the past and refusing to notice the changes that were going on round them.'
asciilifeform: 'After all, they belonged to a class with a certain tradition, they had been to public schools where the duty of dying for your country, if necessary, is laid down as the first and greatest of the Commandments. They had to feel themselves true patriots, even while they plundered their countrymen. Clearly there was only one escape for them - into stupidity. They could keep society in its existing shape only by being unable to grasp th
mircea_popescu: ol' mr. o was a by-the-book jealous faggot.
mircea_popescu: side beenfit of selecting for stupid. ftr, i know of no other nazism that actually put idiocy in the spec for aryanism.
mircea_popescu: the funniest thing to me is that this sad state of affairs gives them no pause. "what orcs ? WE ARE THE ORCS!"
asciilifeform: ^ handy tho not esp. translatable name for the arrangement
mircea_popescu: it's basically a sort of mini-mit, us equiv of "state assets corp of china", exact implementation of "putin has billions hidden away across the world" except for lizzards.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 17:41 asciilifeform: but largely unrelatedly : BingoBoingo ( qntra fodder ? ) , mircea_popescu : https://archive.is/E5Fyk << recent lulz re the http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-02#1709834 folx
asciilifeform: though incidentally might be interesting to use a decapped sram as a 'printhead'
mircea_popescu: and meanwhile in #eulora lulz : <kisspunch> i don't know what the shit any of this is <mircea_popescu> yeah, there's A LOT you don't know. <kisspunch> mircea_popescu: fuck you and your ecosystem
asciilifeform: charged drum would give same effect as billion printheads
mircea_popescu: kanzure do not scale the printing head ; scale the printed matter.
kanzure: ok. so 1 billion valves * n=100 printheads where n was used for total dna molecule length
asciilifeform: so you have closed loop of substrate going through 'printer', rather than sheet
mircea_popescu: kanzure the solution is above, over time. no cleaning. just roll the sheet .
mircea_popescu: ideally you get something denser than trad printer. if you manage 2-3k dpi (with a tractor!) then you can just prepare your receiver on an endless sheet of paper (process upstream) and just print and print and print. constantly. sort-of how the correct re-asphalt road crew works.
mircea_popescu: yep he is correct, in the negative sense. "they do not understand what are the REAL limits imposed on them, so they just go along social lines".
kanzure: because they are biologists and don't understand technology
kanzure: throughput is most important aspect of the setup; air is not important.
mircea_popescu: can have mylar weaved with the pores, for not so much money.
asciilifeform: regardless, kanzure , why is it necessary for the droplets to fly through the air onto the target? why not let'em diffuse through a sheet of mylar through small hole burned by laser, say
a111: Logged on 2015-11-16 21:01 ascii_field: would let you wander off to wherever spies go when a war is over. You know why?' he said. 'No,' I said. 'Because you could never have served the enemy as well as you served us,' he said. 'I realized that almost all the ideas that I hold now, that make me unashamed of anything I may have felt or done as a Nazi, came not from Hitler, not from Goebbels, not from Himmler — but from you.' He took my hand. 'You alone kept m
asciilifeform: incidentally being kgb imho is not an absolute bar to furthering the aims of republic, so long as actually further'em rather than lounge ( like, e.g., decimation, the last rezident ), see also vonnegut's http://btcbase.org/log/2015-11-16#1325347 , http://btcbase.org/log/2015-11-16#1325348 remark
a111: Logged on 2017-07-18 18:23 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand this bit of GT : the knowledge of all the things you don't know thereby constructs a sybil of you.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 17:24 asciilifeform: my current impression is that d00d's duties were not originally connected to antibitcoin detail, but to keeping 'biohackers' and other DIY types well-surveilled by fbi , dhs
mircea_popescu: kanzure : have you put http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-02#1710031 and http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-18#1686026 together ? cuz you're such a fine example of it, and also the first good one since the statement. are you thinking "oh, what he is talking of -- i am not" ? does it mean "i am not aware i am ?"
a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 19:08 mircea_popescu: the captured male how to behave so it doesn't rub wrongly. Example suffices, he will perhaps protest but certainly learn and definitely change to fit the limit on his penis. It's not like he's not very eager to alter his behaviour so he can maintain that sweet, sweet delicious cage for longer, for as long as possible, forever. Whatever he may say, it's all window-dressing for that simple, fundamental fact -- he's happier neu
mircea_popescu: something in the vein of the celebrated http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-29#1705262
mircea_popescu: ah that. wasn't re ribbons, but re the actual letters.
a111: Logged on 2015-04-12 19:18 mircea_popescu: does this not suggest that the ACTUAL REASON adults "had to" register their typewriters was because they wanted to have to ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall the thread with the typewriter ribbons ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 17:24 asciilifeform: my current impression is that d00d's duties were not originally connected to antibitcoin detail, but to keeping 'biohackers' and other DIY types well-surveilled by fbi , dhs
asciilifeform: the hydraulics ain't even rebranded, pop the cover and there it is, cavro.
asciilifeform: btw seekrit : 100% of tecan internals are rebranded 'cavro', if you get a hold of the orig. documents from the latter, you have ~all of it.
asciilifeform: kanzure: i saw it, it's missing most of the protocol
asciilifeform: 'Buttons representing each of the 27 slide positions occupy most of the space on this panel. Clicking on a button will open the slide editor. ' << cringe. even here, guiolade
mircea_popescu: there's 0 willingness to import empire bullshit into the workflow. they must be raped, even if they'd be willing.
kanzure: wardials into random conferences and emails the participants the text at end of meeting
kanzure: much of the inkjet "literature" seems to be patents today. was injet peak hype in 80s?
asciilifeform: and so far i only listed methods from su state of the art, 1980s.
mircea_popescu: kanzure at some point someone came up with "charge the droplets, move elctrostatically, send them out with a quarz pump"
asciilifeform: ( the rest fall into trough, recycled )
asciilifeform: also must point out, there are other ways to make droplets. for instance, perfume atomizer will give wide spectrum of droplet sizes, and you can 'massspec' out the desired size.
mircea_popescu: kanzure your discussion maps on the inkjet vs bubblejet historical approach to printing.
asciilifeform: naaah the mass spec i lived next to was only 500k or so
mircea_popescu: and a good chunk thereby in not-avoidable expenditure
kanzure: is this the highest of the high performance inkjet? http://global.kyocera.com/news/2012/0306_niku.html it's only like 40 kHz * 2600 nozzles
mircea_popescu: here's the bitch : conducive is corrosive for this application.
asciilifeform: make it conduct. then form the droplets magnetohydrodynamically.
asciilifeform: ( what kanzure intends to throttle with the valve, surely has surface tension, and 100MHz prolly won't happen. unless it's liquid he or wat. )
mircea_popescu: imagine there's a bunch of bugs spawned over an acre. to perpetuate, they must mate. how shall they encounter each other ? "wut if we used this waste light and have them all seek it ?" said engineer in charge of moth one day ? "they'll necessarily converge before they reach the moon".
asciilifeform: kanzure: if it's veeery small, use a saw resonator, there's your valve, 100Mhz easy
kanzure: other than overheating
asciilifeform: i always thought it was to find the sun, which is how you find your way out of localminima^H^H^H^Henclosed spaces withnofood , in nature
mircea_popescu: the next thing i say will be my theory :
mircea_popescu: this is my theory, which i name it my theory because i came up with it.
mircea_popescu: my theory, which is mine, i will now recount it.
mircea_popescu: did i ever recount my theory as to WHY they seek the lights ?
mircea_popescu: "they prolly run up to the mhz"
mircea_popescu: exactly. that was the logic.
mircea_popescu: i suspect they can see the flicker, yes.
asciilifeform: and i suspect also -- can SEE the flicker from the electronic horrors
asciilifeform: they luvvv their blackbody
mircea_popescu: apparently, they very much can tell.
mircea_popescu: btw, you won't believe this, but for being the only house with incandescents on this mother-of-biodiversity hill i get like half the moths and consequently a third of the birds.
asciilifeform: btw mircea_popescu would be delighted to learn that 'modern' envirotronic led bulbs typically never properly die, they just grow moar flickery and... orange, if you will
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> now the lightbulbs, connected to the standard battery, did not light up. but only ever slightly orange in the filament.
asciilifeform: taken to the extreme, tho, this train would go to 'can't hang nobody at all, what if Great Artist Dies Inside'im'
mircea_popescu: possibly the event that made it impossible for me to be seriously racist in the usual sense.
asciilifeform: 'the poor dancer is hindered by own balls' or how it was.
asciilifeform: i have a similar story, but from adulthood and with severl $k of parts that 'hey these all defective, thefuq' and at the end an overvolted ps that had nuked'em all one by one by one..
mircea_popescu: and only realised the problem after the garbage had been taken out.
mircea_popescu: i threw them all away.
mircea_popescu: so i threw it away. and piucked another one. same thing. so i scream-ask my mom, across the flat, "mom, is a lightbulb that doesn't not light up thereby no good ?" "yes" she says, evidently using a different standard of "not light up" than mine.
mircea_popescu: now the lightbulbs, connected to the standard battery, did not light up. but only ever slightly orange in the filament.
asciilifeform can feel the bulb in his fingers even nao
mircea_popescu: now this man... he had a set of 9V lightbulbs. and so as any good respectable citizen i sat down with the dead man's dragon pile, to TEST everythiung I got. yes ?
mircea_popescu: now at the time we are writing about, "electronics hobbist lab lightbulb" meant a fixed, all-identical, standardized thing. gost like. every kid in school could recognize the item, "this is lightbulb". same for 4.5V 3-cell-in-paper battery and so on. identical, you understand ? (and same for all girls underweasr and all people's flats and furniture in them and so on)
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, did i ever recount my sad encounter with another man's electronics lab, as a 6 yo ?
mircea_popescu: you realise you'd prolly hang all my whores for "hanging out with enemy, AND wrong garterbelt buckles" if you had to manage the thing ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 17:23 asciilifeform: betcha the man wears 'gott mit uns' belt buckle, he does.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 17:17 asciilifeform: in other noose, the kanzure d00d works and works to transcribe audio for prb 'conferences', e.g. http://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/milan/schnorr-signatures , for apparently years nao.

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