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asciilifeform: somehow in 1985 someone somewhere had comp that's an actual fucking tool for thought, and where could go p=and(x,y) q=or(x,p) r=and(p,q) and get a set of gates arranged in neat rows and with minimal-length non-intersecting wires between'em . and today not. ☟︎
asciilifeform: it's a geometric device. and yes, can be explained in text, or in morse code, etc. but really belongs as a manipulable graphic, if you already fucking have a comp that displays these ( or wtf is it for, for lolcats ?! )
asciilifeform: believe or not, i powered up a winblows toilet , and tried coupla 'free' offerings
PeterL: only a terrorist would not want to run javascript/adobe/whatever shit they are served to do this task ...
a111: Logged on 2017-12-29 20:50 asciilifeform: in other idiocies, 'you are rightly observing that svg doesn't support word-wrapping directly. however, you might benefit from foreignObject elements serving as a wrapper for xhtml fragments where word-wrapping is available.'
asciilifeform: and the notion is esp. outrageous when sitting next to a comp, which theoretically ought to make this a three minute job.
asciilifeform: $item is just slightly too large to draw with pen in reasonable time ( and with asciilifeform's penmanship ) ; but precisely small enuff to be a++ 'animated gif' didacticism -- if, that is, the opensores people actually spent past 20y writing usable soft rather than eating own shit
asciilifeform: PeterL: iirc you were a chemist -- recall the 2d crystal spacegroups
PeterL: so if you have your tile in a 3d cube, then 6 bits would cover four directions plus up and down?
asciilifeform: to briefly revisit ~earthling~ gedanken-fpga tho : it is by no means obv. that the arity has to be 4. anyffin you can tile the 2d plane with, is a legit arity. ( and if you permit 2 or moar types of tile -- then even moar possible options. ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: ^ astro puzzle : calculate the minimal propagation delay in this 'fpga'. ( just how close can one park a jupiter to another before they merge.. etc )
asciilifeform: this gets even lulzier tho -- each bit in a lut is there because it connects to a neighbour (e.g. in the 4bit example from earlier thread -- 4 neighbours ) . nao picture the galaxy of 'neighbours' for the 64bit item...
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-12#1908318 << dun confuse the gedanken-fpga lut thrd with the 'ideal alu bus' one. i.e. a 64-bit bus is a set of 64 wires ; a 64-bit ~lut~ otoh is 2^64 sram cells , a planet-sized object , and with 1 lonely flipflop , lol, somewhere inside its molten core ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: One likbez at a time
a111: Logged on 2019-04-11 19:45 asciilifeform: so e.g. 64 would give you a die with, what, 8 luts.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-11#1908275 << this also howler btw. 64bit sram weighs approx. a jupiter... ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( picture, 1st fella to solve the exercises, gets prize, a sample fpga, lol )
asciilifeform confronts the fact that he's prolly doomed to pen a ffa-style vlsi tutorial 1 day..
asciilifeform: it aint as if i have a queue of folx at the door demanding clean fpga lol
mp_en_viaje: i dunno that this discussion can be carried before we get a basket of baked items.
asciilifeform: a la old hdd.
asciilifeform: as illustrated in yest. thrd, 'many small lut' give you , among other things, a means of working around crystal defect.
asciilifeform: so e.g. 64 would give you a die with, what, 8 luts. ☟︎
asciilifeform: anyffin added on this skeleton, is a luxury frill. ( e.g. 'express lanes' that go somewhere other than immediate neighbour, or whatever )
asciilifeform: the latter case is for when you want the cell to store a bit.
asciilifeform: the 17th bit controls whether the output goes ~straight~ to the neighbours, or instead through a d-flipflop.
asciilifeform: erry type of homogeneous fpga worx on same principle. you have cell, in the cell, a shift register. for simplest example take 17 bits. (will be clear why shortly)
asciilifeform: thinking about it, whole item is simple enuff that it'd fit in a coupla log lines. so i'ma throw in ftr :
mp_en_viaje: notice how at the same time a) all subway cars have little pilot room on both ends, 90% of which dark and disused at any time while b) any electronic component, even fucking memory banks, have a "this way in". why the fuck even, it's just memory.
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, yes, rotation is quite a great win, and very much would like to see it if at all possible from engineer pov.
mp_en_viaje: it seems a matter of recorded evidence that ~all these usg-secreted dorks stuck around for as long as their credit here seemed above water, and not longer.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-03 19:13 stratum: Certainly, but one still has to survive among the internet places as they exist.. We cannot all be RMS and have a helper print out websites for us because we're paranoid.
asciilifeform: idea being, can be made on chinese conveyor, let'em try an' hide little obama in a 200 transistor cell.
BingoBoingo: Well, his last important act was making USG.Blue organ poorer by a smidge less than Trump wants for his fence
a111: Logged on 2019-04-10 20:32 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-10#1907891 << thinking about this further, prolly Right Thing would be a hybrid where there's a repeating block of e.g. 32x32x32 cells connected in 'cube' (this, or even larger, would still fit on physically 2d die) arranged in n x m matrix
a111: Logged on 2015-02-21 01:19 mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
BingoBoingo: Well seven years in the same hostel full of hostile surveilance equipment... Hard to be relevant. Should have sought asylum in a better hostel.
mp_en_viaje: mno, yurp has strong consumer groups etc. i suspect it'll be here for a while.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: well-known scamola. there's a pseudo-nokia 'remake' on same shitware.
mp_en_viaje: btw, saw a very cool thing, basically a modern remake of ye olde razor. fliphone, all elegant and shit. bought it, only to discover...
mp_en_viaje: i suppose this is even a trope
PeterL: it's been a while since lake Erie was literally on fire
mp_en_viaje: what is the point of a spiked bench ? ritual object ?
asciilifeform: PeterL: even sumthing as basic as a) 0 detectable smell of auto exhaust + b) no anti-hobo spikes on benches
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, there's a lot of female-fat tolerance in tico culture too.
PeterL: what are you looking for in a park?
mp_en_viaje: there's a large contingent of indiana/ohio/whatever ~0 sexual market value wilting cows coming to costa rica to score husband.
PeterL: I have a co-worker, every year she goes to Vegas for a week (with her mother), buys some purses and eats junk food. I don't understand it.
mp_en_viaje: and then it's like... 1mark40 per km. gimme a break, really ?
mp_en_viaje: even fucking germany is cheap as dirt. for one thing, they show up within 3-4 minutes in these utter boats of a mercedes or w/e, you've never seen cars like that outside an imaginary 50s us.
asciilifeform: or the palaces, which cost less than a decent auto in clintonistan
mp_en_viaje: yeah it's not even a buck a mile is it.
mp_en_viaje: just saying, you know, what do people do for vacation. used to be "go to vegas", okay, i get it, high roller, picking up the casino cocksuckers cold and shit. fine, fine. most people now there, wasting their life a coin at a time on the dingdingmachines would be so much happier somewhere ~they never heard of~.
mp_en_viaje: gotta go to yurp sometime. everything's cheap these days, a grand or so for airfare ain't the end of the world. stay a week or two, try the cheeses, have definite, personal experience for rest of life. it's no tthe worst way to spend a vacation,
PeterL: not everybody is website expert, guy who likes selling cheese might hire a webdesigner
mp_en_viaje: you'd want to break into my wine cellar and steal some bottles ~because i bought them~. specifically because, my cellar doesnt contain the contents of a crashed delivery van.
mp_en_viaje: understand, raclette is not even a denomination d'origine. it's made in fucking canada afaik. it's ~same as "melted cheese".
mp_en_viaje: and so scrolling to france : Henri Hutin 60% Brie is correctly indicated, though i'd never buy it, wtf hutin. meanwhile "Raclette" gimme a break. why not "cheese", be done with it.
mp_en_viaje: there's a very substantial difference between "coffee imported from costa rica" and "coffee from santa margarita plantation in alajuela, costa rica"
PeterL: it's like the tex-mex style restraunt that says $item comes made with a "white queso blanco cheese"
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, nevermind description, a ~clear and verifiable indication of origin~.
mp_en_viaje: old rotterdam is a very specific item ; "gouda 36 months' is like "vodka, clear"
mp_en_viaje: pecorino is just a kind o fcheese. like you'd say "our legume shop has beans from reserve". ok...
mp_en_viaje: anyways, it's a thing, people can rationalize it to themselves as "well, he likes anchovies, so this is like that"
asciilifeform: these here also. i grew up with the riga (i shit thee not, there is a gost standard, and they still bake to it..) variant tho
PeterL: speaking of cheese, I have heard this local party store has a strangely amazing selection of cheese https://eastmanpartystore.com/gourmet/cheeses/
mp_en_viaje: to get back to numbers, if your per-capita budget is in the 2-3k, the marginal addition needn't even be specifically financed. but it's sub 500 in any case. she can't fucking live on 500 a month anywhere else.
mp_en_viaje: but anyway, if your per-capita budget is 2-3k, which is luxuriously generous in my experience, half a dozen actives means you can afford to rent whatever the fuck, and adding a 7th will positively not show in the grocery weeklies.
mp_en_viaje: sent a half dozen to neighbour, too (specifically because by now i know how to work the tolerances into the experimental data). poor woman nearly inhaled them. "omg so good". yes, duh, have some elbow-made mayo sometime, half the calories, twice the epicurean gainz.
asciilifeform: and in field kitchen, no less ? a++
mp_en_viaje: a pot that feeds five, will feed six.
mp_en_viaje: consdier that it is A LOT cheaper for you to host marginal added girl than for her to "live independently".
mp_en_viaje: can't limit self by walls -- it's not a prison, it's a house, meaning walls are cut according to your size, and not your size according to walls.
asciilifeform: leaving aside the matter where asciilifeform's meat-training skill is approx on par with his mig pilotage skill -- mp_en_viaje would bust gut laffing if he knew how uniquely poor asciilifeform is set up for subj. e.g. as it is , i dun even have physical sq. metrage for a hypothetical #3 crew.
asciilifeform: when mp_en_viaje wrote that he trained these to do useful work, i believe. but it is a world-class feat, like kuklachev's famous housecat circus. i dunno that it's been replicated.
mp_en_viaje: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalfa << the wiki article is remarkably on point for a wiki article.
mp_en_viaje: PeterL, i dunno, the institution has some very strict constraints. for one thing, it must be ~personal~, if there's not a master personally responsible for the individual dork, it's not kalfi, it's something else. and yes, they're supposed to sit around and eat lunch with you.
asciilifeform: it's as if wiretap monkey were hand-carrying a floppy
PeterL: asciilifeform: Isn't there a Uni right around the corner from you? Put up a poster in the engineering department or wherever the "nerds who build stuff" hang out
mp_en_viaje: if you had a dozen bois working with you, as calfe, as god fucking intended it...
PeterL: every "real man" should have a toolbox and know how to use it
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, it is your own damned fault. i don't try to run a harem by myself, fuck my own ass.
mp_en_viaje: same with houses -- yurp is fulla doods who built their own. and so on. everything -- if you have more than a cursory interest, buy the tooling.
mp_en_viaje: same is true across the board -- if you have even a cursory interest in something, owning some machinery is a great move. this includes food, obviously enough, but if you have spare femhands tailoring is QUITE reasonable. then they can dress BETTER than what any fashion catalog can provide, and for pennies on the dollar as what those idiots charge.
mp_en_viaje: anyway, my point is -- if you have multiple cars, it PAYS to have a ditch installed in garage, within the year, heck within 6 months you'll pay for it from reduced maintenance bills. and so following.
asciilifeform: woah i just got a coupla kB of above in <1s
PeterL: yeah, we do have a market here
PeterL: I have a couple apple trees in my back yard, maybe this year I will try making some cider (they are still kinda little, had only a handful of apples last year)
mp_en_viaje: the truth of postmodernism is that tooling is so widely available, it costs ~same to buy a pellet of coca-cola and buy a cider making station.
PeterL: I'm in MI, yes (although I did just spend a week in florida last month)
BingoBoingo: That was TaT, PeterL is in Michigan. Needs a cider press for dem apples.
mp_en_viaje: looks almost exactly like a beer draught thingee, but considerably better for you.
mp_en_viaje: a hand press*
mp_en_viaje: nevermind quitting, just you know, start drinking some actual drinks. buy yourself a and press, make some fresh squeezed oj, you lived in florida didn't you ?
PeterL: coke is a tasty drink
mp_en_viaje: i guess coca-cola will end up a manufacturer of "fine vermouth", and western union will be a sorta cvasi-bank.
asciilifeform: idea being, that a typical subcircuit would fit inside 1 such cube .
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-10#1907891 << thinking about this further, prolly Right Thing would be a hybrid where there's a repeating block of e.g. 32x32x32 cells connected in 'cube' (this, or even larger, would still fit on physically 2d die) arranged in n x m matrix ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform prolly to nobody's great surprise, dun have a tv , or at least not the usual kind with tuner
asciilifeform: PeterL: believe or not , i dun think i've seen a mcd ad since i stopped riding the trains erryday