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asciilifeform: possibly with current-day lithium battery, could be slightly smaller. but still not sure why subj is perennial crackpot interest.
asciilifeform: gigantic plastic sheet.
asciilifeform: just barely carried pilot and parachute iirc.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re 'solar airplane' -- 1 was built in '80s, it hangs in the national museum. not particularly useful other than for 'guiness record' tho afaik.
asciilifeform: ( i actually knew a fella who tried to check into an asylum, on own steam. the latter still exist, but they keep patient for a week, jack'em up with 9000 meds, and let go. to get 'full program' generally you gotta kill somebody )
asciilifeform: ever since reagan closed the asylums
asciilifeform: iirc the occasional genuine barmy still gets it
asciilifeform: d00d is clearly stuck in wrong half of globe tho. in usa a certified schizo gets a gov pension ( as described by tlp ) and for that matter davis lived on one
asciilifeform: fwiw davis actually achieved something
asciilifeform: i wouldn't put him to make paper airplane, sure. but let'im write an os in asm or sumsuch for 20yrs before eats a train.
asciilifeform: like, e.g. terry davis
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: imho madness alone is not necessarily a barrier to productive work. nao if only fella would do sumthing constructive with that energy..
asciilifeform: iirc ben_vulpes got sumthing to do with dirigibles.
asciilifeform: ( the 1 i got, was this )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: iirc he had a diff crackpottery for each. i never got the airplane 1.
asciilifeform: nicoleci: post'em
asciilifeform: lol!!
asciilifeform: not clear why he'd give a damn. ( seems like his 'exciting biznisproposal for you!1111' days are past... )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fella's either barkin' mad, or feigning (why, dunno)
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in continuation of earlier lulz : http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/ZwuQt/?raw=true ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform bbl:teatime
asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf plox to snarf ch19, ty.
asciilifeform: “Finite Field Arithmetic.” Chapter 19: Peh Tuning and Demo Tapes.
asciilifeform: guess i gotta manually
asciilifeform: hrm, feedbot down ?
asciilifeform: ^ apropos of http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-21#1914829 thrd. ☝︎
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in heathen lullies, http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/SzRGZ/?raw=true ☟︎
asciilifeform: pretty good def, imho
asciilifeform fwiw has moar 'toilets' than 'kitchens', so happens
asciilifeform: aint nuffin wrong with 'gamez box' if one observes elementary kitchen-toilet separation, aha
asciilifeform: a troo gem imho.
asciilifeform: aha!
asciilifeform: was esp. great on 'hard', where you gotta leave the guards alive
asciilifeform: played on last serious gamez box i had. w/ ye olde 'voodoo II' card
asciilifeform: i liked the old 'thief'
asciilifeform will eagerly read mircea_popescu's review if he tries this or similar
asciilifeform: i knew a d00d who almost flunked school from overindulging in 'freeciv', shit thee not
asciilifeform: ( or 'freeciv' )
asciilifeform: hey at least it aint 'xpenguin' !111
asciilifeform: is why god made warez aha
asciilifeform: i , also, never had appetite for ' blow k/mo on virtual cartridge' heh
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in principle. ( this is where asciilifeform confesses that he has never in entire life eaten game other than from warez... )
asciilifeform: ( textures! )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: naodays aint even uncommon to see game eat 50-100GB !
asciilifeform: iirc
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i saw . decent 'elite' variant
asciilifeform: i saw one vaguely original thing coupla yrs ago, iirc was 'far cry' -- very ornately graphixy thing set in... stone age. ( twist : character is able to tame animals and lead a sort of army )
asciilifeform: oh ha
asciilifeform: the irons cheapened, but game people lost the spark of life, very little made these days that eats 3d card other than infinite variations on tired old shooter theme
asciilifeform: i recall this time.
asciilifeform: about 1k dubloons gets you all the game warez box anyone might want
asciilifeform: indeed it can, i dun think this is surprise to anyone
asciilifeform: in 'portal', a chix walks around with a sort of blaster that opens wormholes b/w any two targets. 3distic puzzler thing.
asciilifeform liked 'portal', but it aint exactly 'recent'
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform's brother slaved for 'valve' for a spell, but it's been some yrs since this )
asciilifeform: but afaik not a pc-style os, no
asciilifeform: they have some sorta nintendobox iirc, with handsewn linux
asciilifeform: ( the last 1 i personally touched was 'portal' )
asciilifeform: they were all a++ on warez last i knew.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: microshit's , i meant
asciilifeform: ( there is nominally a 'steam for linux' . asciilifeform not tested. )
asciilifeform: unless you're 'valve' aficionado
asciilifeform: sounds like it's condemned to eat w7 then
asciilifeform: generally i have a use thought up for box before arising off arse to sew one , lol
asciilifeform has not, never felt compelled to use oddball bindist linuxen just because sewn box with 3dcard
asciilifeform: then anyffin that talks to openglism-under-x worx.
asciilifeform: aha, what i had on mine. ( not ubuntu, naturally, but vendor's binturd installer actually does shit forth a loadable kmod , and goes on conventional gentoos for so long as k 3+ )
asciilifeform: ( w7, if one must, eats 1070, with some fiddling )
asciilifeform: afaik this mostly means microshit
asciilifeform: as i understand mircea_popescu's own eulora knows what to do with 3d card tho ( can't picture why would need whole 1070 however , for such )
asciilifeform has not gamed much in recent times; not since embarking on multiyr maffs grind
asciilifeform: tho supposedly 'valve' has linux gamez
asciilifeform: none
asciilifeform: presumably you didn't buy the card to draw transparent backgrounds in shells with lol
asciilifeform: lol why gtk. e.g. asciilifeform has plain old x, cum 'ratpoison'
asciilifeform: 'modern' as in kern 3+ is really all
asciilifeform: ( even eats 4 of'em w/out skipping a beat )
asciilifeform: at any rate 1070 drives e.g. newfangled 3840x2160 lcd, a+++
asciilifeform: ( naturally winblows will eat the 1070, but i dun imagine mircea_popescu was asking 'which winblows to get' lol )
asciilifeform: but i confess, not tried
asciilifeform: supposedly ye olde 'wine' has 3dism naodays
asciilifeform: hedgehog mass
asciilifeform: aha!
asciilifeform: a.
asciilifeform: that 1070 is heavy bugger
asciilifeform: i'd stuff that thing in a chassis of some kind btw. else it's only matter of time till you elbow it and snap the card edge imho
asciilifeform: it's a cad box
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's old gentoo with evil kmod turd from nv, currently
asciilifeform: i think exactly same brand even
asciilifeform: lol i have 1 of these in a recently-sewn box
asciilifeform looks..
asciilifeform: oughta be doable on any linuxism with relatively recent (3+) kernel, iirc. incl. the cuntoo draft.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform has not had chance to try this any time recently, and afaik no one in l1 reported such an experiment.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thinking re 'gfx-heavy' : might be interesting to try the recent years' opensores nvidia driver. (supposedly it actually worx.) perhaps send a pet to set it up.
asciilifeform: if i omitted anyone else's ffaisms, plox to lemme know. ( PeterL: your item will be in 19 )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-01#1916464 << updated with fixed typo and with link to diana_coman's illustrated ch1-4 guide, originally missing ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do you think of as 'gfx-heavy' ?
asciilifeform: questions, nitpicks, iron timings, welcome.
asciilifeform: ( will live in a 'demos' subdir . )
asciilifeform: the likbez tapes given in 18c will be rolled into vpatch of ch19.