asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-13#1912999 << mp_en_viaje i have to plead 'guilty' to this. asciilifeform when younger many times 'went for broke', pawned shirt, and -- lost shirt. so has roughly same pov as bedouin has re water.☝︎
asciilifeform: i suspect in bucharest the locals are moar preoccupied with finding 'sugar' jobs at microshit tentacle and saving up for miami
asciilifeform: diana_coman: did they have this in your corner of ro ? ( when in bucharest, asciilifeform saw also ruins, and gigantic dead factories, but no torch d00dz , instead all overgrown with vines, trees through roof etc )☟︎
asciilifeform: impossible to tell w/out retaining a skilled orcologist
asciilifeform: or , fuck even knows, roof sold 'legit', and www listing a sham
asciilifeform: later dug and found that that place was Officially for sale on www, for 'paltry mil bux', w/ no mention of 'dun come with roof'; so inferred that roof was 'unofficially' sold..
asciilifeform: lol recall albert speer's 'ruins theory' aha
asciilifeform: although, next to that hotel i was in ( same 1 mp_en_viaje held c2 in ) , gigantic and apparently abandoned glass box bldg was having its roof methodically cut by scavengers with torches, quietly loaded each piece on truck and vanished before nightfall
asciilifeform: when i saw these, i was certain they had to be ruins (of the ru '90s 'walls carefully disassembled by scavengers' sort) -- but apparently not
asciilifeform: 'oops we ran outta dough to build roof'
asciilifeform: also funnily, when going there , asciilifeform went in wrong door, ended up in some sorta gurlz' dormitory. labyrinth of unlit hallways; knocked on several doors and faced with surprised orc chix in bathrobes etc
asciilifeform: i saw several of these, we sat for a while tryin' to come up with synthetic language to speak lol
asciilifeform: ( iirc he was not only lawyer but licensed accountant also. bright fella. dunno why resistant to pgp. )
asciilifeform: a++ excavator. nao if he'd learn to pgp...
asciilifeform: if it's the same fella asciilifeform met, i can picture this scene
asciilifeform: as often happens, mp_en_viaje suspects correctly.
asciilifeform: let's put this way : if asciilifeform's dwelling were a sokoban level, i am not certain it would be a winnable level..
asciilifeform: aha. may have to wait for next change of flat / excavations, sadly
asciilifeform: meanwhile , in ru heathendom , (translation mine) : 'there is a sign that distinguishes a troo programmer from an impostor. a true programmer , before going to bed, will put on his nightstand two glasses. one with water -- in case in the night he becomes thirsty. and one empty -- in case not.'☟︎
asciilifeform: i have other 'surplus' gear also, for folx who have a use; e.g. a 'icestick' (ice40 '4k' (half-size)) proto-board, buncha similars, at some pt i'll make list
asciilifeform: worx great w/out legs, too, has electro-stabilizer.
asciilifeform: this one is approx. the size of the ubiquitous '30s leicas
asciilifeform: also sony, 'a6000', inexpensive. ( anyone thinking of trying it should be aware that the included lens is mediocre however. but it does take vintage lenses of various vendors via adapter. )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-13#1912942 << i had one at 1 pt, sold it for the described reason and bought what is nao known as 'mp cam' in 2011. but earlier this yr retired it in favour of a recently introduced thing that is sorta in between the two, has removable lens but around half the mass of typical dslr.☝︎
asciilifeform: in other noose, amd 'family 22' cpu (i.e. where they introduced fritz core in 2013) has obvious breakage in 'usg.random' instruction (also introduced then, in footsteps of intel) : https://archive.is/BMJwJ
asciilifeform to bed, but promises to continue this thrd laters
asciilifeform: i kept waiting for the inevitable prikoke cite. where is it 1!!
asciilifeform: i've lived on the wage of unskilled labourer before. and not interested in doing it again, would rather be gassed.
asciilifeform: arguably it comes down to a stupid choice of profession. the software pseudo-industry only really exists in the reich + its tendrils, afaik.☟︎
asciilifeform: ... and i did have to go to it physically 1ce, to audition. and earlier, had to work in ninth circle of hell for 6mo+ while looked for it in the 1st place.
asciilifeform: billymg: for past coupla yrs i worked for folx who actually don't care where people live. but suppose it folds...
asciilifeform: billymg: it's very simple -- money. i work for living, and have never done it anywhere other than in the reich, 'meatwot' is there.
asciilifeform: evidently it is possible to have cargo cult with working (in a sense) planes.
asciilifeform: given as the cn folx actually do ship irons, asciilifeform had notion that they differ from 'precious cuntlets of washingtonistan'. but evidently not ~so~ different .
asciilifeform: the chinese are comically inept imho, to the point that it aint clear whether they even want to live.
asciilifeform: the moar significant problem tho is that it aint clear whether 'the game is worth the candles', for xyz chinese part. and to answer the q, takes considerable effort and expense, cuz the demo boards are ridiculously crippled.
asciilifeform: ( before mp_en_viaje asks -- it sadly aint practical to take a unit off an existing board and reuse. they're all bga . )
asciilifeform: which makes building prototype board quite tricky if you aint already chinese
asciilifeform: we had iirc entire thread about this, 'chinese problem'. parts that only ever get mounted in china, tend to not get exported 'naked' at all
asciilifeform: to folx with serious chinese presence, prolly also gettable.
asciilifeform: bvt: naturally, to inca it's all gettable.
asciilifeform: e.g. 'digikey' stocks even i386. but not that mips. (or any other mips, aside from early 2000s microcontrollers like 'pic32' )
asciilifeform: it aint stocked anywhere, last i saw.
asciilifeform: bvt: aahahaha but then try an' source the chip.
asciilifeform: normally 'dev board' means, you can prototype, yes. ok, done prototype, where can have production ??☟︎
asciilifeform: bvt: where are the 'non-dev' boards, then ?
asciilifeform: there's nuffin physically impossible about baking an arm (or mips etc) board that eats socketed ecc ram. but there seems to be a de-facto usg fatwa against'em, or sumthing
asciilifeform: it's almost like these things are carefully designed to be unusable for any serious job
asciilifeform: and result is ~useless board, no canhaz trb in 1GB
asciilifeform: really, save 5 cents on dimm socket ?
asciilifeform: wtf is with the ubiquitous plague of non-expandable ram, incidentally
asciilifeform: btw bvt the archive link is a blang pg
asciilifeform: bvt: you'd have to connect a real disk to have a useful trb, but otherwise i can't see why not
asciilifeform: i.e. asciilifeform ported to pogo (even had working, save for the flash disk, netbsd port) , then the iron vanished from market long before achieved anyffin useful on it☟︎
asciilifeform: porting linux to oddball irons does sometimes feel like 'writing in the sand' -- you sweat, then the thing goes out of print and 'ocean washes away'
asciilifeform: i dun recall whether all the periphs worked
asciilifeform digs for thread, but cannot immediately find
asciilifeform: iirc phf built a working c101 kernel (i.e. 3399)
asciilifeform: as a rule asciilifeform does not 'fix if it works'
asciilifeform: ( and in fact would rather leave 'repentant linus'-era kernels entirely alone, if it can be helped, and if cannot , would prefer to pilfer patches an' backport intelligently to old kernel , if it comes to this )☟︎
asciilifeform: nao this ~may~ have changed some time in past yr, but i am loathe to bake new kernels when i have a working one.
