mircea_popescu: items which go to unspecified locations are eminently the tools of the engineer. it's the doctor of divinity that should expect very strictly confined results. engineering is more of an airy, take-things-as-they-come line of work.
mircea_popescu: https://www.tcl.edu/ <h4>TCL Program of the Week</h4> <p>The opportunities are virtually endless. Get the high-tech, in-demand skills you need for a computer career that can go just about anywhere.<br />
mircea_popescu: "TCL's flat screens and curved screens are the perfect combination of elegance and high-tech performance (HD/4K televisions, Android televisions)."
asciilifeform: all of them!11
asciilifeform: probably doomed to do this in the end regardless.
asciilifeform: or perhaps not : could simply lay out the thing by hand...
asciilifeform: 'yosys' is that chain's verilog synth; the whole shebang is quite dead in the water without it.
asciilifeform: tcl , as i understand, caught the plague many years ago. this must be the 7th or 8th popular proggy that none of asciilifeform's boxes will build, purely on account of tcl rot.
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform built 'icestorm', 'arachne-pnr', with plain gcc 4.9 ( the only concession to idiocy on the test machine was python3 ) . and even MOST of 'yosys' ( the last step in the ice40 open sores fpga toolchain ) built. in fact, whole thing built, but linker barfs
mircea_popescu: on the basis of "what the people need", as demonstrated by the people themselves, bitcoin blocks of 64kb would be perfectly sufficient./
mircea_popescu: in other words, bitcoin cash is exactly equal to a proposition of reducing bitcoin blocks from 1mb to 60kb.
mircea_popescu: ~340 kb average (over 10 blocks). considering this 10 represents 1/5 or so of the bitcoin chain, so basically they're about 15 times LESS transaction intensive than bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: in further lulz : the scamchain is ~300 blocks behind bitcoin. here's a summary : 478610 1 hour ago 443.02Kb ; 478609 1 hour ago 141.72Kb ; 478608 2 hours ago 291.50Kb ; 478607 2 hours ago 584.60Kb ; 478606 3 hours ago 174.71Kb ; 478605 554.37Kb ; 478604 3 hours ago 771.29Kb ; 478603 4 hours ago 355.16Kb ; 478602 4 hours ago 158.57Kb ; 478601 4 hours ago 424.27Kb
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back on planet earth : the bitcoin crash difficulty implies a per-scamtoken cost of about 1/4 btc, and the price is about 1/10btc. the remainder comes straight out of the would-be miner's pocket. now tell me again all that jazz about how "miners decide" and whatnot bullshit idiots were spewing theoretically in theory.
mircea_popescu: https://news.bitcoin.com/despite-naysayers-the-bitcoin-cash-blockchain-chugs-forward/ << topish keks
a111: Logged on 2017-08-04 00:07 asciilifeform: in other lulz, chorus of current and former microshit monkeys in #bolix defends winblows.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 23:02 asciilifeform: to add insult to injury, even BROWSING shithub ( where all of the 'open' ice40 projects live ) no longer works on any of my graphical wwwtrons
shinohai: I didn't get kb so I take it they at least tolerated.
mod6: ah, did they enjoy?
mod6: perhaps just m$ disease has permeated the brain barrier huh
shinohai: "From this date, you must hereby allow your webrowser of choice spew irrelevant ads and any other form of js eyesore that is dictated by the creators of this site."
asciilifeform: in other lulz, chorus of current and former microshit monkeys in #bolix defends winblows.
asciilifeform: 'This syntax was added to bison on bison 2.6+ so either install later bison / just delete those lines locally' 'What @OrDavidi said. Those two statements only improve the quality of parser error messaged. You can safely remove them.'
asciilifeform finally found 'iceprog', a c proggy, that r/w built turds to the chip. but so far is all.
asciilifeform: to add insult to injury, even BROWSING shithub ( where all of the 'open' ice40 projects live ) no longer works on any of my graphical wwwtrons
asciilifeform: and the compiler requires clang
asciilifeform: in other noose, asciilifeform recently and for the THIRD time tried to get http://www.clifford.at/icestorm going . has the iron ready, etc. BUT the only prog utils are in a) python3 b ) haskell
shinohai: 99% of all reporting nodes seem to still be the Amazon sybils from before.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as best i can see for the past coupla hours bcc hash is actually 0.
shinohai: trinque: I did, twas first few hours after their "fork" ... afaik still no actual > 1 mb block mined.
trinque: thought shinohai or someone'd said they'd yet failed to mine a block larger than 1mb
asciilifeform: trinque: i'd think their blocks would be rejected in the intake hopper, for being 2MB ?
asciilifeform: apparently d00d broke quickly in the cokemachine.
asciilifeform: 'Hutchins’ employer, cybersecurity firm Kryptos Logic, had been working closely with the US authorities to help them investigate the WannaCry malware. Hutchins handed over information on the kill switch to the FBI the day after he discovered it, and the chief executive of the firm, Salim Neino, testified in from of the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space & Technology the following month.' << golden idjits
mircea_popescu: i thought the guy fixed wannacry. did he make wannacry ?
asciilifeform: they still have sore starfish from 'wannacry' using nsa's beloved 'unpatchable' hole, and pressure building for patch of same
mircea_popescu: let me put it another way : if "the united states" is sorely hurt by a coupla grand wortha software, all those tomahawks'd better win some wars.
asciilifeform: he isn't being accused of theft
mircea_popescu: this isn't evne grand theft is it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so the idea is dood made/sold kronos w/e that was.
mircea_popescu: tbh i very much like the danielpbarron write-up style of "this is how to do x ; if you're lazy i'll do it for you costs this much".
asciilifeform: nope. but it is on the list
mircea_popescu: you saw that "tinmen" film btw ? re the early al siding industry ? that enchanted period in the 50s that even gave memes like "wtf are you, an al siding salesman ?"
asciilifeform: it comes in these long strips.
asciilifeform: the al. siding .
asciilifeform: the planks come off.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the fertilew swamp on which that was produced were "better building materials", ie, "let's make a house out of drywall and insulation".
phf: it is well known that things are as bad elsewhere as they are in smawpland, dc
mircea_popescu: well, in practice the whole "flame retardant" thing never really took off. but this is not because of the rohs stuff.
asciilifeform: i remain skeptical that they did not substitute in something equally objectionable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the other side of that chasm, of course, is that it's how euros forbade the phtalates (plastic softeners) and polybrominated crapola (flame retardants).
mircea_popescu: "our novel eutectic alloy melts at just about 500 degrees. just as good as proper solder, and also better for the environment!!!"
mircea_popescu: yet another case of "in discussing idiocy of idiots, sane people find out interesting truffs."
phf: i mean, i figured it's ~not~ the question of weight, obviously
asciilifeform: epoxy will hold it and if you pull it with four hourses it'll be the pcb socket that comes off, not the hs
phf: that's how the heatsink is attached to the surface, but i wasn't sure if it can handle the fan vibration
mircea_popescu: the heatsink/fan assemblage is not heavy enough for the paste to not hold it. esp if upright.
asciilifeform: the kind with diamonds
asciilifeform: phf: thermoepoxy !!
asciilifeform: only theory i can think of is he did not want to 'spoil' his 'rembrandt' with 'non-period' grease and hs
phf: relatedly i couldn't figure out how to attach the fan to the board without drilling into it. there's like two possible mount points, but requires machining a custom brace
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would he hassle dsk for an original fucking fan though. really, copper is expensive now ?
mircea_popescu: the macro photos i like.
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693423 << i believe man's solution was to buy another $7k xl12xx. otherwise the website is distinguished by macro photos of symbolics boards and retellings in own words of Document Examiner material (which is also available in printed form, in before asciilifeform's "i have the whole printed set")
mircea_popescu: and in other random lulz from the internets, https://profs.info.uaic.ro/~vcosmin/stuff/temp/psgbd/Tema_ScorDoi_Nr6/_Chiriac_Dorin_B5_6_2_Cazacu_Vlad_X1_6_2.html
trinque: and that at some point a log of the encrypted OTPs and their return (as seen over that serial cable by 3rd box) is moved somewhere, and the encrypted OTPs decrypted and matched up with OTPs received
trinque: in order for a log of OTPs to be meaningful, in that it asserts a particular person assented to an action at a given time, gotta know the OTP corresponds to the item sent to that person. the way I've been thinking about that is encrypting the OTP with two keys, one of which I hold; the other belonging to the outside party
mircea_popescu: or maybe i'm not understanding the problem ?
trinque: well, without transcribing or OCR'ing the log back in somewhere.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of baffling moongineering : why the fuck do they have SQUARE vent holes on places like us navy ships, where they can actually afford to design the cover rather than buy from walmart.
trinque: tells me ordering of OTPs, but not whether one leaked out with wrong key, multiple keys, so on.
mircea_popescu: trinque it's for your own later audit. hence the tee
trinque: ah now I recall what might reduce the print audit's usefulness. it means visual inspection of the encrypted items, as well as OTPs. logger box has to first see the encrypted item, second, corresponding OTP, and then this log has to be verified by someone who can (elsewhere) crack open the encrypted ones and match up the OTPs.
mircea_popescu: but the engineering label seems to be falling off./
mircea_popescu: lol mkay. i mean this dood. and wtf already, put some probes on the baffling process, this is science ?
asciilifeform: i think 'engineer' is the 'dougnyc' d00d
asciilifeform: it's the PALs
mircea_popescu: "So, it appears thermal stress on the Ivory CPU isn't the problem, or that the thermal stress is too great for that small heatsink to keep up with." do they not have laser thermometers where these people live or what is the problem here ?!
asciilifeform: is it like doctor on pirate ship ? they let'im go when new one caught ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693331 <<< nah, arresthire. they're running out of talent pool.
trinque: funny thing was I'd already considered having the OTP box burn a CD as it went along, just shitter printing without visual inspection.
asciilifeform: thermal tape shitter is also great for otp btw
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 17:51 asciilifeform: ... "I've spoken to the US Marshals again and they say they have no record of Marcus being in the system. At this point we've been trying to get in contact with Marcus for 18 hours and nobody knows where he's been taken," the person added. "We still don't know why Marcus has been arrested and now we have no idea where in the US he's been taken to'
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 17:43 asciilifeform: it is ~perfect : 1) no way for enemy to unhappen logs short of burning the bldg 2) easy to scroll through, read 3) thermal paper burns great
mircea_popescu: definitely one of the ten best anglo movies ever made, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: ok, well, if you're curious to delve into what did what to your mind, go see it sometime, and see it so that you answer me the question of "what did moore do wrong ?"
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 18:07 asciilifeform: trinque: incidentally i recently purchased a number of thermal printers from dying ratshacks, you can have one for cost of postage
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693332 << I stand next to a stack of them at this moment, lol
asciilifeform: they were once connected to cash register
asciilifeform: trinque: the ones in question are rs232 boxes
trinque: see what the complexity hell did to my mind? "not printers, those are a nightmare cesspool"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason i even quoted etc is that for all the diversity, no actual stupidity came out. so...
mircea_popescu: really this should be the motto of something. "The moving finger writes ; and, having writ, moves on. Nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line ; nor all thy tears wash out a word of it."
asciilifeform: elsewhere , for all of asciilifeform's gripe re the trinitron d00d -- he immediately grasped 'why FUCKGOATS named'
asciilifeform: don't settle for inserting road cone into the bastard's arse, insert telephone pole.
asciilifeform: printing blockhash nukes the pre-prepped-tape-substitution attack also.
asciilifeform: i like thermal.
asciilifeform: i dun much like those for even light seekritz, they leak via audio
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 17:41 trinque: if there were a hardware-only way of logging what traveled over that serial port, even better. that'd be the audit trail instead of the OTP box's disk.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693319 << of course there is, get an ancient tractor epson matrix printer, buy it paper, let it go.
asciilifeform: ( hence the ludicrously disproportionate effect of ssd )
shinohai: From the sewer: "I think bcash sounds much cooler than bitcoin. the name bitcoin feels like myspace, bcash feels like facebook."
asciilifeform: i did hope to find some other major source of dogslow. but nope.
mircea_popescu: "For ready comparison, the "journalists" of the Empire of Stupid were mentally slow and bodily lazy enough to publish a pdf that betrayed their source last month." links it neh.
asciilifeform: did the footnotes get cut off ?
asciilifeform: i dun see it there ?
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, asciilifeform has a crackpot twist theory re why 'shitcoin cash' tire fire : it's a ploy to make impatient folx glom their addrs ( for usg's 'taint db' farms ) when splitting&selling shitforkolade
asciilifeform: trinque: incidentally i recently purchased a number of thermal printers from dying ratshacks, you can have one for cost of postage
asciilifeform: 'A US Marshals spokesperson told Motherboard in an email, "my colleague in Las Vegas says this was an FBI arrest. Mr. Hutchins is not in U.S. Marshals custody."'
asciilifeform: ... "I've spoken to the US Marshals again and they say they have no record of Marcus being in the system. At this point we've been trying to get in contact with Marcus for 18 hours and nobody knows where he's been taken," the person added. "We still don't know why Marcus has been arrested and now we have no idea where in the US he's been taken to'
asciilifeform: 'On Wednesday, US authorities detained a researcher who goes by the handle MalwareTech, best known for stopping the spread of the WannaCry ransomware virus. ... At the time of writing it is not clear what charges, if any, Hutchins may face. Motherboard verified that a detainee called Marcus Hutchins, 23, was being held at the Henderson Detention Center in Nevada early on Thursday. A few hours after, Hutchins was moved to another faci
asciilifeform: and refuses to load the lul o' the day, https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywp8k5/researcher-who-stopped-wannacry-ransomware-detained-in-us-after-def-con .
asciilifeform: it is ~perfect : 1) no way for enemy to unhappen logs short of burning the bldg 2) easy to scroll through, read 3) thermal paper burns great
asciilifeform: trinque: if there were a hardware-only way of logging what traveled over that serial port, even better << i use a thermal printer for this
trinque: if there were a hardware-only way of logging what traveled over that serial port, even better. that'd be the audit trail instead of the OTP box's disk.
trinque: ah probably string of command, since folks need to see what it is they've gotten an OTP for. at any rate, still not branch-causing.
trinque: the otp part discussed here stands alone, though. a rather dumb piece of software can keep track of encrypted OTPs it dispatched, the corresponding command (which sits in the encrypted item), and when it got the OTP back.
trinque: I'm going to do a writeup when released, still putting it together.
asciilifeform: trinque: can you point me plz to the thread where it was described what your current item (walletbot) does ?
trinque: doesn't match, sorry folks, going back to the last transaction batch
trinque: an external adatronic otpulator makes dealing with transactional items diddled by the web safer, as I see it
asciilifeform: also to go with these -- option of running sans mempool
trinque: the thing wants at least a sendrawtxn, external txnmaker, and address tracking without holding privkey
asciilifeform: because again the idiotic design of whole thing
trinque: could be that I diddle the RPC hole too often for this node
asciilifeform: ( see http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2017-February/thread.html and corresponding threads )
asciilifeform: during which sockets are not serviced and wither and die.
asciilifeform: the latter is ye olde blackhole
asciilifeform: ( the 'banned' )
asciilifeform: that's heathens
asciilifeform: ( wires patch currently is just epsilon short of useless, because of the asinine default block sync algo )
trinque: at any rate, going to disable the wire for now and see what happens
asciilifeform: trinque: the latter
trinque: thought it was the latter
trinque: did a wire to one node mean not trying to eat from others, or merely "highest priority to wire"
trinque: I may have misunderstood the wires patch behavior.
asciilifeform: trinque: if it relied on zoolag, it will be hungry until the new ssd crate arrives ( tomorrow at dawn )
trinque: mircea_popescu: the node's behind, and looks like it's not getting anything from its connections. I'll look into it.
mircea_popescu: btw, where did we lulz at some fake news outlet printing a pdf straight up thereby allowing the usg goons to pick up their source ?
asciilifeform: incl. at least 1 fella who hit the famous ddr-sdram wall.
asciilifeform: in other noose, lotta frustrated fpga aficionados live in #bolix.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo For the month of July 2017, Qntra published 37 articles for a total of 3993 words.* < is that star like a footnote ?
trinque: maybe they're down atm
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 15:23 BingoBoingo: OMG Crashing https://archive.is/PijL7 #4 behind Ether huffing and RIPple
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 14:53 asciilifeform: also lol re the attempted theft of the name 'trb'/'the real bitcoin'
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693218 << i thought the dude carefully linked to the foundation website << it is, ya
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 15:17 BingoBoingo dreamt that mp staged a "reality show" style social experiment. Series of competitions where contestants were coached to act on Trilema principles, "cause not purpose" to prevail. Then as soon as contestants were told filimg stopped the "moo-moo" resumed.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 14:53 asciilifeform: also lol re the attempted theft of the name 'trb'/'the real bitcoin'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693218 << i thought the dude carefully linked to the foundation website.
mircea_popescu: hey, there's such paucity of ideas in the fiat world, it's somehow unsurprising when escaped victim goes hog wild in the clover patch.
ben_vulpes: that anonymint feller is really going for the gold in plagiarism
BingoBoingo: Limited edition collectible soaps were then made from the contestants and offered to fans.
BingoBoingo dreamt that mp staged a "reality show" style social experiment. Series of competitions where contestants were coached to act on Trilema principles, "cause not purpose" to prevail. Then as soon as contestants were told filimg stopped the "moo-moo" resumed.
asciilifeform: sorship only further lowers your future reputation.'
asciilifeform: meanwhile, at the monkey circus, https://archive.is/RiGV4 >> 'Going to be lolz epic when all the SegWit transactions are double-spent, i.e. stolen by miners on The Real Bitcoin (the legacy Satoshi blockchain).' 'Go ahead and continue voting to close and censor this question. It will not change the embarrassment that you will have when it comes true and all the losses that people sustain because you blocked timely disclosure. Your cen
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: phf: nm i since found the l0gz item
mircea_popescu: myeah, i figured "fuck you, write the paging yourself" the moment 4 bit was out of my mouth.
asciilifeform: it is about quite different instr set, and arch ( incl. the use of segments )
mircea_popescu: getting back to the "i'm from california and thereby i'm fucked in the head" thread, "Configure GitHub to look Symbolicsish ; Configure YouTube to look Symbolicsish". this "task" pretty much explains the whole thing imo.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would register width matter ? can't have 4 bit gnat for some reason ?
asciilifeform: ( afaik there is not a 16bit gnat/djgpp. but 32bit with prot.mode extender oughta work ok )
mircea_popescu: and then eventually, "internal error or misconfiguration"
mircea_popescu attempted to leave comment ("You're not very smart, are you. You'd like to be, obviously. But that's not the same thing."). on every attempt, a different field is supposedly not filled.
mircea_popescu: of course, #14 becomes problematic seeing how the general pantsuit objection is "too complex".
mircea_popescu: which is a subtle shift from what mp actually says on the topic. primo strawman.
asciilifeform: 'The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”' lol!!
mircea_popescu: anyway, rather lulzy nonsense. "because it rejects the decay started with the age of pantsuit, it therefore is irrationalist". because totally, the french communists invented thinking.
mircea_popescu: somehow herdemocracy pantsuits very visible among the lisp crowd.
mircea_popescu: lulz from the dood suggesting "in between server", http://eschatologist.net/blog/ : ""Italian author Umberto Eco defined Ur-Fascism in an article in the New York Review of Books in June, 1995. It can be distilled into fourteen points. Its worth taking a look at these to see just what our society is dealing with when it comes to alt-right Neo-Nazis and the ideology they promote.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: shorther than a duck's knee.
mircea_popescu: in other silent joys, http://68.media.tumblr.com/b7de212ce1b86a6249a5282577b807e8/tumblr_o7woe8dcgO1u9uov7o1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "Ubers lawyer: What is the patent that is left in the case, as you understand it? Page: I have no idea." (from google-uber suit, via #bolix).
asciilifeform: ( and that was the EASIEST bit. the console protocol, for instance, is still undocumented; and last time asciilifeform gave a shit, he did not - and still does not - have test equipment fast enough to sample the 200+MHz analogue waveform accurately )
a111: Logged on 2017-08-02 21:41 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the strong claim was that he was the guy that finally fitted disk to symbolics.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-02#1692922 << i let this slip by somehow. afaik this is STILL unsolved in the open lit. ( 'this' being 'fpga glue for ssd replacement of st506 drive' )
asciilifeform: ( imho hard to picture how the 'still had shit' could sit there yet- unpilfered by that point )
mircea_popescu: nobody knows how things were as a matter of fact ; but the notion has plenty of skin on its bones.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if this was so ( and iirc it was how u. eco painted it , and for some reason i balked ) then yes
mircea_popescu: constantinople wasn't so important militarily ; but certainly in the copying monk sense here discussed. even after the venetians sacked it, it still had shit.
mircea_popescu: this is not happenstance. cairo fell in 1517 BECAUSE constantinople had fallen, and for no other reason.
mircea_popescu: except not at all without. i personally sat on the steps of oldest university in europe -- in istanbul. 1200s
mircea_popescu: in the simplest of terms, no afghan goes "we must make peace with trump because he bought himself a jet". at the time, this literally happened, "we can not be at war with these people they have books".
mircea_popescu: so yea, the market reflected.
mircea_popescu: there is a moment in frank history when this third brother raised up in rebellion because his father disinherited him. and he had... no artefacts. this was a huge fucking deal, they had not a single book to know how to organize the state/church.
asciilifeform: dunno that the market reflected this notion
mircea_popescu: but, understand : copying monk cca 1490 was worth, in adjusted terms, more than the current 747 jet trump bought.
mircea_popescu: half the time even copied random strings in.
asciilifeform: the former is helpful in propagating the artifact where it may eventually fall into the hands of the latter
mircea_popescu: the copy under discussion spanned that gamut.
asciilifeform: also i'll note, there are 2 types of copy, the basic 'soviet' type ( where you life everything incl. dec's 'when you care enough to steal the very best' easter egg inscription ) and the kind where you actually get the ~concept~ out
mircea_popescu: it is a matter of fact, though. a monk was fucking expensive. more so than the modern item in question.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is as always quite eager to lowball the market value of anyone not himself
mircea_popescu: "bare hands" at the time meant low control high force "i can move rocks hehe".
mircea_popescu: they werre not, no.
asciilifeform: not a single 1 of these folx show any symptom whatsoever of having a microscopic part of the most elementary clue re what is involved.
mircea_popescu: there's a very strictly defined ingredient which distinguishes the cargo cult scavenger worlds from the renaissance scavenger worlds.
mircea_popescu: is the easy bit because it was done.
asciilifeform: go an' replace the 'ivory'.
mircea_popescu: not so. the "replace hdd" item is proof of this.
mircea_popescu: the point however, is that if this gets going he'll be (justly) motivated to do more work, replacement wise on them etc.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 15:17 mircea_popescu: and this in the best case, a good half simply buy them to deny it to memory strokers in the hope of geting more $$$ later.
asciilifeform: there was no pretense of isolation in lispm.
asciilifeform: whoever has the console, has full r/w to whole box
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: know also, these weren't in any sense whatsoever multiuser.
phf: it is possibly because 3600 series is a hog. xl1201 is snappy, i got it to render a jpeg over the wire for example, all the hacking was done on machine over x11
mircea_popescu: understand : the neurotic chick that's fucked regular, unbecomes neurotic. the sane chick not fucked, becomes.
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure there's much limitation on usage.
asciilifeform: ( no lispm ever built in the classical period had anything like the address space to make it bitcoin-capable, for instance )
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other lulz : i just brokered a deal whereby we could in principle get candi to run off vintage iron, as a hosting deal :D
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 03:26 asciilifeform: the 'collectors', in my experience, have been the farthest possible thing from a help -- quite a hindrance, in fact.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 03:17 asciilifeform: it is almost as if they did not want their 3-10k $ investments to turn into the equivalent of old nintendo.
asciilifeform: i will illustrate my comment 'they are grave robbers, not archaeologists'. take, for instance, https://www.instagram.com/p/BUXulHRgjEZ/?taken-by=tr1nitr0n ( it dun show on archive.is, i have nfi why . ) pictured is derp buys 4 (! and where?!) smbx ivory cpu
mircea_popescu: anyway, the idea was, restaurants don't work like apple stores, there's a "concept store" etc. they work more like music acts i guess.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the situation is tight coupling between businessman and chef, which meanwhile disolved. i still count it as an a, except the funes item came in thje shape of starr/rose binome.
phf: i'm pretty sure starr himself is not a cook, but apparently the whole starr restaurant is not his first venture, he started as a large-scale stadium concert organizer (? i'm not sure what to call that role), so who knows how much cash he put into his restaurant venture
mircea_popescu: a yeah, check that out, franchised. sad. i've not seen the books but i'll bet you the conglomerate lost money q1 2017.
mircea_popescu: or did he do the whole tv franchise bs and left coucou ?
asciilifeform: 'selling even one of these in today’s market would recoup the cost of everything we purchased, the van rental & gas between here and boston, the cost of freighting hundreds and hundreds of pounds of equipment from new york to washington state with enough left over to purchase a brand new macbook'
asciilifeform: rembrandting the poor old junkers