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asciilifeform: nor is there any way to link to an internal element of it ( sorta why mircea_popescu had to write his js hack )
a111: Logged on 2018-02-02 20:22 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pardon my thickness, where do you want qntra ns pointed again ? ideally in the format ns1= ns2=
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779566 << usually shop at end of campus. << Spanish Class with the Venezolana this evening was an survey of local retailers that don't catalog ☝︎
asciilifeform: oh hm mircea_popescu found the screen brightness magic number ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i already found that i had a 1U intel 'xeon' box, also usable , from years ago...
phf: mircea_popescu: i thikn that's what we're going to do, but i need to confirm my schedule. i'm still at the office, so i'll confirm in the morning
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'ma uncrate things, take pics, expect a roundup sunday night. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: opteron in particular is 'nonrenewable resource' whose future price cannot be put in guaranteed bounds. but yes can sell.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aaaaha
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: demise of unix os is a thing to rattle swords pon bucklers 'bout
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was re one of BingoBoingo's catalogues, it literally had a gadget i had on my desk , once obtained for 20bux, listed for 170
asciilifeform: aha, i think mircea_popescu gets it
asciilifeform: ever since mircea_popescu described it as a less-bony variation on frog
asciilifeform: am i the only one who looks at mircea_popescu's priceless rare birds and thinks 'hm'
mod6: true enough mircea_popescu. if you don't properly shoulder the weapon, can have funny effects.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the american teflon lubricant is pretty great ( i use it in various... gear )
asciilifeform: ok i think i know what mircea_popescu meant.
asciilifeform: i betcha mircea_popescu did some pretty killer b&w photography back in the day
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think i had genuine coffee this one time...
gabriel_laddel: Inventory arrived from CA a few days ago and am rebuilding M. mircea_popescu well you certainly know how to get my attention..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: upstack, i recommend against 'extend OPTIONS to do names' or any similar; http is a fundamentally damaged-at-birth item , and really oughta be trimmed down to bare minimum , and kept alive for strictly so long as it cannot be avoided
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: based on tcpdump/wireshark
asciilifeform: i'ma wait till mircea_popescu eats rest of thread tho
a111: Logged on 2018-01-20 17:13 mircea_popescu: "do not use 2nd class link as 1st class link".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it'd look like trinque and phf 's answers re HEAD
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, he had the ( to this day unobtainable ) 'loongson' mips-top
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> shouldn't be over 20kgs all told, this ; should fit among clothes. << I used beach towels and blankets.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think phf possibly was alluding to ordinary orc-theft of cargo, rather than the usgistic sort
phf: mircea_popescu: hey i flew moscow in the 90s, i'm trained that putting anything in luggage is playing a roulette
phf: mircea_popescu: boxes are not in custody during air travel
laplinker: mircea_popescu: its a "special" usb cable , DbC cable
phf: mircea_popescu: fedex or better yet a private shipping container, later will take couple of weeks though
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it needs there to be one in the 'victim' aha
asciilifeform: laplinker: and yes, what mircea_popescu said, write a post about this, i'd like to know what boxes this works on, how to talk to the chip, etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he's discussing usb variant
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Looking for empty 1U cases. Put fans in there and affix pogos
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> also related, BingoBoingo if he brings you pogos, how do you plan to use ? decase and mount in an ad-hoc thing, 8-10-12 to the u ? << Pretty much this.
a111: Logged on 2014-04-25 20:09 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.stalingrad-battle.ru/images/stories/ris42.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: shitdroid also!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: let's include several variants for completeness : 1) fedex , and chancing the VAT 2) somebody other than asciilifeform , who can go sooner, goes, delivers a box 3) BingoBoingo obtains box locally << Fedex to Montevideo is a certain VAT, and random chance of additional import duty.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform incidentally intel sayz good links to sa are all from miami/ft lauderdale etc ; not so much ny. << The plane that does the American Airlines direct Miami-Montevideo route is older than I am. Flights routinely cancelled for repairs. Copa's panama to Montevideo service though is reliable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ru item was remarkable because it was verifiable with simple analogue electronics, no fancy patternmatching camera etc
asciilifeform: what does mircea_popescu have in mind re seals
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: prolly doesn't merit entire post, given as most of the item is in the log.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun keep a massive pile of ssd on my person, lol. but:
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: depending on what you need in the 2 virginal boxen, can be ready in ~wk
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's include several variants for completeness : 1) fedex , and chancing the VAT 2) somebody other than asciilifeform , who can go sooner, goes, delivers a box 3) BingoBoingo obtains box locally
asciilifeform: right but mircea_popescu runs on atomic battery.
a111: Logged on 2018-02-02 20:21 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when's your visit there scheduled ?
a111: Logged on 2018-02-02 20:21 mircea_popescu: (and more practically : when's my deadline for speccing my boxes with you ?)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779772 << i have 3 boxes prepared for bisp under s.nsa banners ; 1 is dulap-III , which is 'endisked', en-FG'd, and crated for its journey; 2 want disks; if mircea_popescu has specific config he wants for #2 and #3, or to obtain moar , gpggram. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-07#1766301 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lispist
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider also, the marvel from the other end of the idiocy stick, the 'autogenned docs'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: microshit docs are already pretty close to this.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-28 00:34 mircea_popescu: if i want 5 boxes, what do i do now ?
a111: Logged on 2018-02-01 14:20 BingoBoingo: !~later tell mircea_popescu Qntra.net online at 161.0.121.253 pls to get the domain repointed, ISP statement incoming.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 05:23 mircea_popescu: after the first year your machines are amortized and your downline built, so you're looking at some decent net margin. before the first year you're burdened by the capital costs and stuck with low occupancy, so you bleed cash.
BingoBoingo: !~later tell mircea_popescu Qntra.net online at 161.0.121.253 pls to get the domain repointed, ISP statement incoming. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-01-30 19:19 shinohai: yes emmylark is encouraged to contact me with mircea_popescu 's permission
a111: Logged on 2018-01-30 18:18 BingoBoingo wonders how many crocodiles mircea_popescu is chilling with on his latest viaje
shinohai: yes emmylark is encouraged to contact me with mircea_popescu 's permission ☟︎
BingoBoingo wonders how many crocodiles mircea_popescu is chilling with on his latest viaje ☟︎
BingoBoingo: !~later tell mircea_popescu a MUSL box is now ready to plug in and serve a form of Qntra... after a weekend of head banging
shinohai: but in mircea_popescu's original, I also see strange things
shinohai: asciilifeform: i mirrored your dictionary, and mircea_popescu's wordlist here: http://btcinfo.sdf.org/library/Roman-Englez/
xenmen_: thanks mircea_popescu, just reading up on your site
asciilifeform: the item mircea_popescu gave, 'dex', is also on the conveyor, but will prolly have to wait for peacetime
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 2nd eggog, 'very significant costs'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'underlying problem' link in your latest piece, eggogs
shinohai: phf was going to, maybe when more sluts arrive. I thought emmylark was under the auspices of mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: naa i'ma do what mircea_popescu said, leaving it alone for nao
phf: mircea_popescu: i don't think it makes sense to talk about bit order on any of the architectures that we're discussing, since you can only address by bytes. big endian systems could have little endian bytes and you would never know, likewise little endian systems could have big endian bytes and you would never know. logically though there's no reason you can't view big endian to be a bit reverse of little endian
a111: Logged on 2014-04-25 20:09 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.stalingrad-battle.ru/images/stories/ris42.jpg
asciilifeform: i also agree with mircea_popescu in re ~new~ cpu design having no business being byte-addressing and having a detectable endianism orientation AT ALL.
phf: mircea_popescu: our current strategy with architecture support has been "it works on my machine, but if you want it to work on your machine submit a vpatch", and it's been pretty consistently applied (e.g. my openbsd patch that's been floating independently, despite never getting vpatched).
a111: Logged on 2018-01-28 15:24 mircea_popescu: in other news, to share with the group for comment : the idea is that even if we do mandate smallendian, it would still be proper to have a bitwise implementation, even were it slow, as a proper model of sorts. so it'd be both of these.
a111: Logged on 2014-10-14 15:14 mircea_popescu: the entire "monsanto increases yields" fallacy is based on the fraudulent proposition that shit-tomatoes are = tomatoes.
a111: Logged on 2014-10-15 19:56 asciilifeform: another observation re: qntra. recall mircea_popescu's point about synthetic tomatoes?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what was the context there ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu dislikes the 'we know the constants' endianism, flip if machine's is opposite' traditional pill ?
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, will schedule dreaming eulora spec machine then
asciilifeform: supposing mircea_popescu is happy to risk a coupla btc of crate 'in 1 basket'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform would be an one-time thing. but hey, you get to see uruguay. it's jenuinely not bad, can go for a week, take pet on trip to bsas for a few days... the city is lovely if one doesn't mean to stay << Rocha, Cabo Polonia, and Colonia are all highly recommended by the vacationers
a111: Logged on 2018-01-28 00:34 mircea_popescu: if i want 5 boxes, what do i do now ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: De nada
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what's wrong with fedexing it! << Box that enters the country via FEDEX is going to certainly get hit with customs and the 22% IVA. Box that comes in suitcase is almost certainly going to get waved through as a personal effect. It's a math problem of whether to pay an import duty or plane ticket.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-28 01:01 mircea_popescu: trinque the fundamental point is that if they shit in it, it'll be ~their~ shitting in it. obviously orcs will be orcs, anyone recall say http://trilema.com/2015/internoc24-llc-aka-internoc24com-is-a-scam-or-how-milan-dragan-slatjovic-stole-700-euro-from-me/ or w/e
asciilifeform: where mircea_popescu gave a picture, 'i'ma buy a 6th item in the place that has the correct 1-5 already, and even for moar dough'
mod6: yes, mircea_popescu. exactly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you did. and how it took , what , whole month on top of the Officially specced <week , and showed signs of passing through who knows what ordeals
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the orig prototype rng
asciilifeform: hey mircea_popescu recall my fedex to ro ?
asciilifeform: maybe i'm thick, but , let's say mircea_popescu wants a server magicked into existence. would he want to pay the cost of a asciilifeform-carries-in-suitcase-in-airplane-to-BingoBoingoistan in the cost of said box ?
BingoBoingo: Someone here has to need a vacation, mircea_popescu might be the only other person in the republic with better weather scheduled for the next two months.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> gold sparks and everything ? << ya, mine too.
asciilifeform: iirc it looked exactly like mircea_popescu's
mod6: neat-o mircea_popescu
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually had 1 of these as homework in american school, 3rdgrade << yah, same.