vex: I'd like a big stainless desk frame I can bolt to the concrete. 316 50x50 with a 50 mil slab of something nice on top
crtdaydreams: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-27#1109261 << prick of a thing to weld
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-06-27 00:07:00 vex: I'd like a big stainless desk frame I can bolt to the concrete. 316 50x50 with a 50 mil slab of something nice on top
vex: I've ever tried, I thought you might know a thing or two
crtdaydreams: thing is, it's pretty well the same thing I had in mind, except running pulleys on aluminimum rollers inside the legs
crtdaydreams: so can lift up and down
vex: how does it stop?
crtdaydreams: ratchet cable winder
crtdaydreams: rests on the tension
vex: kinda clunky for at $10k item
vex: is it gonna wobble around and shit?
crtdaydreams: heh, aforementioned dun move it much
crtdaydreams: it's 50x50...
vex: yeah, I think I only want one height
crtdaydreams: if yer bolting it the concrete fair enuff
vex: Where are you getting these big slabs of silky from anyway? or did I overestimate the size of `scool desk'?
crtdaydreams: well the one I'm working on is 25x25 over 20x20 2mil thick
crtdaydreams: the actual box is 610x420x165 or something like that
crtdaydreams: the slab on top is wider than the box
crtdaydreams: can't give ya a measurement off the top of my head
crtdaydreams: I welded up the frame for it last night
vex: yeh, I was imagining bigger. sounds cool. those rhsections fit together do they?
crtdaydreams: yup with about a .25 mil gap either side
crtdaydreams: fits perfectly
vex: gonna chuck a few grease niplles on her?
crtdaydreams: nah, just some dry silicon lube after painting
crtdaydreams: shouldn't be moving it up and down all the time, this one is just holes and pins
crtdaydreams: no fancy pulleys etc
crtdaydreams: satin black to match the brass and silkyoak
vex: ooh.. brass?!
crtdaydreams: brass hinges and a sliding bevel to angle the lid/drawing board
crtdaydreams: brass screws etc.
crtdaydreams: It fits in the frame with not a thou to spare
vex: sexy. and it is a drawing board too?
vex: does it come with matching tsquare?
crtdaydreams: yup and sorta (tsquare is sadly not silkyoak, and needs a bita love)
crtdaydreams: I'll have some pics on my site in due course
vex: cool. are you keeping it?
crtdaydreams has yet to paint, assemble and polish
crtdaydreams: damn right I'm keeping it
vex: sounds like it'd be worth half a bc to the hipsters in melbourne
crtdaydreams: probably
crtdaydreams: I dunno if I'd sell it right away though, the wood hasn't be laquered or polished etc. merely oiled.
crtdaydreams: I don't have the equipment to do a proper finish (yet :P)
crtdaydreams: gtg, o/
vex: cya cunt :)
vex: i'd put a lttle inlaid brass cdd logo where the title box might be, over time the graphite rubbings might report it
vex: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-24#1109024 cool rundown. I didn't remember
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-06-24 14:45:18 asciilifeform: became a hobo (given as 'stanford is run by morons', 'turned on, tuned in, dropped out'); took to hiding out on rooftops ('the guards are morons'); took to eating stims by the kg ('to finish my lispm! any day nao!'); hallucinated, fell off roof, broke foot; 'doctors are morons, i'ma self-amputate'; then vanished, and not seen on net in some yrs, likely rip
vex: even if rock bottom sober, still rip
vex: I think he's chained by his one good leg to an assembly line in mexico making hyroiotic acid 247
vex: I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but macacamias don't grow overnight
vex: achtung bingoboingo; I'm making things up.
vex: I'll reconsider things untill the summer is almost over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8oTvIaWH7s
vex: prolly rock up right when the pool is closing, in the smallest speedo
vex: that's when the bitches are horniest
vex: front pike to whiskey
vex: australie
vex: 1 dive only
vex: thirsty
vex: embrace the disgrace
vex: frowns abound
crtdaydreams: asciilifeform: would like to know what happened with this, i recall someone mentioning the limiting factor being speed
dulapbot: (trilema) 2017-08-31 asciilifeform: phf et al : to briefly continue http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-31#1707895 -- picture an a4-sized plinth, of, e.g., 32 dimm slots. each can contain a card of sram, or alternatively of 4 ice40-8k's, or some peripheral ( e.g. nic magnetics. )
crtdaydreams: (specifically in reference to e.g. ice40s)
crtdaydreams: shelved til pest et cetera 'solved' i presume
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-27#1109329 << shelved after experiments suggested that this approach doesn't win
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-06-27 06:55:22 crtdaydreams: asciilifeform: would like to know what happened with this, i recall someone mentioning the limiting factor being speed
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-03-29 09:12:44 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-03-29#1090185 << obv. can connect >1, but they won't 'behave like larger array', given propagation delays and sparseness of i/o
phf: man chromebooks are utter junk
asciilifeform: phf: yours finally let out magick smoak ?
asciilifeform still has the original which pictured in the articles, tho sans the mousepad, ripped its cable at some pt during the various vivisections
phf: nah, spent couple of hours trying to get some intel asus to boot into linux
asciilifeform: aa, the x86 ones
phf: got convinced that http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-23#1108733
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-06-23 15:21:03 phf: tbf even messing with a chromebook is kind of a mistake
asciilifeform not tried those
asciilifeform: phf: i can sorta see wai to fiddle with the arm32 ones, but wat's the use of the ultralowend intel boxen ?
asciilifeform: ( do they also somehow 12h emacs ? seems unlikely )
phf: it's just fust enough to play early 2000s games in wine :>
asciilifeform: x60 also justabout
asciilifeform: (tho the fan is annoying imho)
phf: it's just touch slow for e.g. vtmb
phf: which is about my cutoff point, e.g. thief deadly shadows from about same period, or like return to castle wolfenstein
phf: i no longer have any gaming machine, openbsd doesn't play wine, etc.
phf: oh, a perfectly usable chromebook, nope!
asciilifeform in '17 'wainot i'ma build a mswin box w/ fattest gpu, maybe games' -- shortly after turned it into a commercial test toilet, lol, and ever since been that
phf: i have a back of a truck top of the line nvidia from last year, which i've been meaning to build a gaming computer around, but somehow fucking with rear differential is more interesting.
phf: *back of the truck
phf: *fell of the truck
phf: i give up
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform for last 6mo also deep in equiv of 'rear differential' but with ancient house, rather than truck (truck, for nao, ~worx w/out much fiddle)
asciilifeform: tho considering 1 of those micro cranes for truck
asciilifeform: ( and e.g. backhoe )
asciilifeform: ( pet: 'let's install a 2nd pet in this room' a: 'i was gonna put the board line there, lol' etc )
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-06-17 16:44:26 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in misc. irons, apparently a complete chinese-style production like (x-y paste jetter, pick'n'place, conveyor, reflow oven) can be had naodays for ~15k $ , comes in 1 shipping container
signpost stood up a VR setup with nvidia and valve index to see whether infinite wall o' terminals was possible yet.
signpost: verdict is still "nope"
asciilifeform: signpost: does that one still suffer the 'pixels the size of tea saucers' problem ?
signpost: had fun with a few VR games for a bit, and item's now collecting dust as one'd expect.
asciilifeform: ( i.e. '4k'(tm)(r) when spread out over yer whole retina aint in fact much )
asciilifeform: not for text work, that is
signpost: right, resolution is too low, and far too low to have some of the "screens" at an angle for quick glancing to the side.
signpost: let alone that "glancing" isn't possible without turning one's whole head.
signpost: it's going to need enough detail across the entire motion of the eye to work.
asciilifeform: if had working eye tracking, and proper electronics (i.e. vector graphics representation and rasterization in realtime, in iron) -- in principle '4k' enuff to cover central vision
asciilifeform: afaik all the off-shelf vrvisors geared to 3dshoot/pr0n, tho, so not holding breath
signpost: most fun I've had with the thing has been "SUPER HOT", a bullet-time shooter, and star wars themed space-shooter.
signpost: both not more than "yeah, this will be cool in 10 more years".
asciilifeform: signpost: interestingly, was at that stage in '90s
asciilifeform: like '3d movie' , is in a kind of endless disappearance/reappearance loop
asciilifeform: meanwhile the req'd tech for 'vr for text' exists, but in mysterious patent limbo 4evah
dulapbot: (trilema) 2014-03-22 asciilifeform: kopin corp. had microdisplays with ~1600x1200 in fingernail sized element, for ages
signpost: we are probably the wrong personality type to enjoy it regardless of level of tech.
dulapbot: Logged on 2022-06-22 00:08:45 signpost: out in nc at uncle's atm to drink and plink.
asciilifeform: dunno, asciilifeform would buy a programming helmet.
signpost: just got back
asciilifeform: (if only to make his setup with 100kg of eizos + 200kg of desk, portable)
signpost: I'd also buy, but every time I use VR I get the sense of uncanny valley, like I've been tricked by something obscene.
asciilifeform not interested in 'virtual rooms' etc. idjit skeumorphisms; just fucking plain text on retina plox
signpost: mhm, as a tool for work, will likely be mighty useful.
asciilifeform suspects that the highres retina displays -- which were demoed in '80s -- are being 'sat on' on acct of being perceived coldwar 'wunderwaffen'
signpost: not familiar, but facebook's demoing some interesting stuff. might just be a matter of there not being a civilian market for $100k/headset.
asciilifeform: sure there is. asciilifeform or for that matter errybody who spends 14h+/d in cockpit, would buy in a heartbeat, if the thing actually worked
asciilifeform bought arsebook's headsets, unsurprisingly found to be rubbish
signpost: yeah, but they're $1k, and I'm talking about a "market" in which no company can plan anything further out than a few quarters, and denominated in a currency that'll buy half next year.
asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2022-06-27#1109384 << 'phf's horse' lol
signpost: best thing about the trip was that our phones didn't work for shit.
asciilifeform once did time in a salt mine w/ a fella who spent coupla wks erry spring in ru taiga. 'best thing, pnoje dunwork' etc. still had to come back errytime to salt mine unsurpris.
signpost: full disconnection will remain impossible while there's still such a thing as property tax.
signpost: which is somehow not a poll tax because, I suppose, one could choose to live in a sewer.
asciilifeform: well if yer genuinely loaded and it's effectively 'penny', then wainot
signpost has grown cautious watching those who were "genuinely loaded" in the 80s and 90s implode when the environment shifted around them.
signpost: in hyperinflation I expect that property taxes (or rents) will probably make short work of most people's retirements.
asciilifeform: signpost: considering that the entire purpose of engineered inflation is to confiscate savings..
asciilifeform: the folx on the trigger-pulling end of that crime will, unsurprisingly, make bank, rather than starve
asciilifeform: (i.e. erryone who owns 'growing', with inflatola, income-generating assets. at the expense of erryone who not)
asciilifeform: 'stable society dun need a middle class'(tm)(r)(mats) or how did it go
asciilifeform: 1917 was a while back, lizards not in any sense afraid of payback naodays
asciilifeform: nor are their bootlicks
verisimilitude: It's still pathetic that video games are about the only things computers can do right nowadays.
verisimilitude: Still, they can be rather fun.
verisimilitude: I've seen an impressive VR racing game demo; I could see it working for arcades, but traditional arcades didn't need face condoms as a public VR system would.
mats: i always wanted to be famous enough to be quoted
verisimilitude: Keep trying; that was a paraphrase.
asciilifeform: even mp's programme was a paraphrase, lol
verisimilitude: The Latin word FABER FABRI means ``crafter'' and the like, meaning it's the origin of words such as ``fabrication'' and how neat.
verisimilitude: It's also neat how several words use the same base in different declensions, such as GENA (cheek) and GENŪ (knee) or COLLVM (neck) and COLLIS (hill).
verisimilitude: How fun.
shinohai: For the logs: "i always wanted to be famous enough to be quoted" - mats
verisimilitude: Congratulations, mats.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: with no intention to rain on yer parade, still gotta note that 0 of these are any kinda noose to folx who know 2-3 eurolangs
signpost: hey man, us walmart-raised fags gotta learn to talk good too.
verisimilitude: It's okay, asciilifeform, I walk with an umbrella.
signpost: lol
verisimilitude: I suppose that very word, ``umbrella'', is ``little shadow'' or something or another.