feedbot: http://blog.lobbesblog.com/2019/09/mp-wp-bot-work-plan-week-3/ << lobbesblog -- mp-wp bot work plan: week 3
mircea_popescu: dude it's such a pleasure, waking up to like THREE republican blog articles ; me shall get to it after breakfasts.
bvt: hi. for me, the meatworld events mentioned in http://bvt-trace.net/2019/08/fg-fed-linux-rng-work-schedule/ are over, i am continuing active fg-kernel work
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/what-amused-me-last-night-selected-romanian-ruralia/ << Trilema -- What amused me last night : selected romanian ruralia
mircea_popescu: good for you bvt
mircea_popescu: mod6, the machine hosting that keyset magically died earlier -- just as i was about to read your thing, imagine that. seems the mobo went, though tbh it's a little weird, will have it cut up later.
mircea_popescu: anyway, will replace the system during this week ; if it's an emergency/not that important re-encrypt to mp_en_viaje ; if not i'll see then.
mod6: mircea_popescu: oh no! sorry to hear about the mobo. not an emergency at all. in a rush atm, will re-send later, no worries. :]
mircea_popescu: kk
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how many yrs do you typically get out of those mobos ?
mircea_popescu: this one died in five months.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if not a mega-seekrit , what was it ?
mircea_popescu: gigabyte something
asciilifeform: fwiw the 1 asciilifeform is sitting on just nao, is going on 14 yrs ( albeit recapped in '17 ) of 24/7 run
asciilifeform: in other noose, ECC event on dulap. 'Corrected error, no action required.'
asciilifeform sees these 1-2x/yr
mircea_popescu: nfi, pretty weird. i have decade+ mobos too
mircea_popescu: but certainly not this one.
mircea_popescu: then again, this i bought a) recently and b) here
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i fully expect that early 2000s mb's will do decade+ unless one hammers nails with'em
mircea_popescu: kinda same.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: betcha it's a dead cap.
mircea_popescu: likely
asciilifeform: apropos historical : '90s workstations ( hp, sgi, even some crapples ) sometimes had mechanically-swappable vreg+caps modules.
mircea_popescu: then again, they totally needed them.
asciilifeform: dunno, i have such things as sgi 'octane', dec 'alpha', from late '90s, that still run w/ orig. components
mircea_popescu: plenty of horror stories from the early 90s, kinda similar to ye olde early-Ttank stories.
asciilifeform: indeed; tho most of these feature konsoomer comps
asciilifeform: the 'clock speed race' tempted vendors into cutting corners (i.e. 'new cpu 2x as hot but we'll use same room-temp-rated parts around it because Who Will Notice!11' )
asciilifeform: components since '70s traditionally sold with 'temperature class' stamp : 'commercial' (saddest; 0-85C) ; 'industrial' (-40-100C) ; 'automobile' (-40-125C) ; 'military' (-55-125C, sometimes moar)
asciilifeform: there are fine gradations inside the 'classes' also (chiefly degradation curves vs temp, e.g. in vreg , de-rated in re max tolerable voltage spike, or hrs of expected life, or both, at high temp ) , it's a quite gnarly biz
mircea_popescu: aha.
asciilifeform: ftr FG was made of 'commercial', to keep cost reasonable. tho i've selected random samples and cooled to -20 / heated to +60 ; passed tests. but item is ftr not made for use inside freezer or oven.
asciilifeform: ( primary headache with higher grades of part , is ~availability~, rather than cost per se (tends to be +10/+20%) -- if yer baking a small (less than 10,000) run, need 'cut-tape' purchase, which usually only exists in 'commercial' grade )
asciilifeform: atm if you want a FG for use in mars probe -- gotta do it sovok-style, take 10 and test in the desired conditions , pick the champ.
asciilifeform: ( if fuel is not a concern, fly all 10 and xor'em!1111 -- in all seriousness, rng is perhaps the easiest part known to man where to implement redundancy )
mircea_popescu: right.
asciilifeform: interestingly, ye olde stochastic logic theoretically gives this for all gates.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-01-15 12:35:38 asciilifeform: you represent the inputs ( any # of'em ) via stochasticizers, i.e. each 1 gets a comparator that eats N bits of rng and outputs a 1 if they represent integer <= the currently latched binary number, 0 otherwise.
asciilifeform: in other noose, 'recent comments' box added to asciilifeform's www. ( phplogy exercise; but generally gaping hole, imho; nao filled. )
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/09/us-warmongering-against-venezuela-erodes-post-wwii-inter-american-treaty/ << Qntra -- US Warmongering Against Venezuela Erodes Post WWII Inter-American Treaty
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll be pushing out the overview of the real estate situation on the ground here Thursday.
asciilifeform: * feedbot has quit (Quit: ...) >> spyked ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: neato
asciilifeform: !q uptime
snsabot: asciilifeform: time since my last reconnect : 38d 11h 1m
asciilifeform: ^ replacement bot.py is ready, gotta actually cycle it in when folx asleep...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, pretty cool
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, qntra piece brings a great point to the fore, incidentally : the usg managed to implode its colonial posessions / colonial "influence sphere" in the new world JUST EXACTLY like the soviets managed three decades prior.
mircea_popescu: except THESE idiots have no "greater enemy" to "blame" for it.
mircea_popescu: they did it by themselves, for themselves, ~through being themselves~. JUST LIKE the other idiots.
mircea_popescu: just like all the other idiots ever, starting with every 4 year old. no, the chair isn't alive and didn't willingly trip you up.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: same as the brits did, neh. no one picked up an' walked way with india
mircea_popescu: well, the brits being a laughingstock surprises nobody.