asciilifeform: possibly he did. last word i was able to get out of him, in iirc 2012, it was 'my shrink told me it would be best if i did not post any more'
asciilifeform: iirc i switched a couple of'em to archived copy
asciilifeform: my www's links bar used to be this 'museum', but cleaned it up a bit last yr
asciilifeform: i do have a 'butterfly collection' of crackpots, goin' for ~two decades nao
asciilifeform: 'cannot rightfully apprehend the confusion of ideas that would lead to such...' (tm)(r)(babbage)
asciilifeform: 'if I wanted to influence your RNG I would attack it at the von neumann fair toss algorithm, by ensuring that I have control over pairs of outputs somehow.' << didjaknow!111
asciilifeform: i'm satisfied, fwiw, that d00d was ordinary crackpot, rather than professional appendage ( tho given the calibre of 'pro appendages' these days... )
asciilifeform: 'I could never write serial uart code. maybe there are algorithm errors in the protocol that I don't know about or miss. I'd just use a tested library. I always have really high-level conceptual ideas, I often get lost in the minutiae.'
asciilifeform: 'i never saw it before, but here is how you can fix!111'
asciilifeform: quite hungry for mains current, iirc 250W / cpu
asciilifeform: was their last, afaik, box , prior to the switch to intel arch
asciilifeform: these also only worked with custom lcd iirc.
asciilifeform: iirc trinque found 1 in a surplus auction somewhere, booted it up
asciilifeform: i suspect bureaucrats, eating kickbacks, keep alive crapple's comp div. e.g. uni of md decade ago actually bought coupla hundred of those g5 crapples (similar price), they sat around and nao sit in the surplus shop, 50bux ea., no one wants
asciilifeform: ( betcha he'll eagerly buy this box, and post... )
asciilifeform: whole thing quite reminiscent of pete dushenski's plastic mercedes
asciilifeform: upstack, apparently the 5k lcd dun come with the 999 leg. ( and won't mount to standard leg w/out a 200 $ adapter ( or, i suppose, illicit 'drm circumventing' electric drill... ) )
asciilifeform: where god help you if you have a garden etc
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not only, but they put in 'tiered pricing'
asciilifeform: prolly. they'll remember fountain soda for 1 kopeika / glass, like asciilifeform does.
asciilifeform: this is pre-terminal sovok, terminal is when 'tapwater worx on tuesdays and fridays'
asciilifeform: when various folx who 'i won't microshit, basta' were willing to shell out 5-6k (1990s! usd) for various irons
asciilifeform: seems as if the ipnoje thing did not pan out, and what remains of crapple, is attempting a return to 1990s
asciilifeform: even crapple hall audience, consisting of hand-picked flunkies who bought costly tickets, jeered
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in heathen lulz : crapple proclaimed a 6k usd (bare-bones config, ~34k for full!) comp; lcd for it : 5k ; ~leg~ for lcd : 999 $ .
asciilifeform: ( ~those~ -- if someone wants to colo, we'll colo, but i cannot justify to spend piz coin on such atrocity )
asciilifeform: ( i'm entirely uninterested in intel's , or fritzchipped-amd, offerings, ftr )
asciilifeform: last i saw, apu1 was the only really usable x86 'small' box of which can mount several in one 1u
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: plox to put some meat cycles into market survey then
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: presumably you were speaking of 'apu1'
asciilifeform: interesting, but slightly underpowered for the $
asciilifeform: as for rk, asciilifeform is quite reluctant to expand the rk plant presently, as we lack a 100%-useful rk gnat
asciilifeform: ideally Right Thing will be if we can a) lease out large boxen b) set up, in reasonably near term, the shared host scheme described upstack.
asciilifeform: the small-boxen cluster thing is potentially useful, but somewhat fiddly in re: construction time
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: think also re what else we ought to have ( spare rk ? disks? etc )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm thinking to get piz 2 of the same item also.
asciilifeform: ( last i saw, the folx from whom i bought prev set, still alive )
asciilifeform: ideally you want that type with the 2 slide-out ps
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've begun the search. will send you spec prior to buying
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, sounds like The Right Thing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: start thinkin' about what we want in the 2 remaining cargo slots.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: can't in good conscience pick a date before i get the irons bought an' tested, but i suspect before end of (north hemisphere) summer, likely
