asciilifeform: phf (and any other interested folk) if you have a bit of spare change, buy yourself a 'pcengines api2', either 2 or 4gb model, it's this comp that comes with schematics. then we can play.
asciilifeform: and if we can get performance on par with, e.g., my 4mhz bolix 3620 - it's a win. of sorts.
asciilifeform: it is at least theoretically possible to resist.
asciilifeform: pay cash upfront for a ton of cocaine.'
asciilifeform: 'As preferred customers, they often took Chapo's drugs without putting any money down, then paid the cartel only after they sold the product. This might seem unlikely, given the pervasive distrust in the underworld, but the narcotics trade is based on a robust and surprisingly reliable system of credit. In a sense, a cartel like Sinaloa has no choice but to offer a financing option, because few wholesale buyers have the liquidity to
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: poor model. dynamic system, like jet fighter, not static, like bridge.
asciilifeform: remember, remember, the nth of shitember, the deathray treason and plot! i know of no reason, why deathray treason, should ever be forgot!11111111
asciilifeform: but apparently i have nfi 'HOW WORLD WORX' etc.
asciilifeform: i thought #1 rule of 'unhappening' an event was to ~stop prattling on about it~
asciilifeform: 'One thing is clear: If the financial services industry is to embrace a new technology, it cannot be one in which mischief and mistakes are immutable and fraudsters can defend their actions on spurious ideological grounds. '
asciilifeform: 'But if blockchain is to move beyond cryptocurrency and lab experiments to real and profitable deployments, we need to challenge conventional orthodoxy and rethink the role of absolute immutability. Perhaps we will then soon be able to read more about blockchain’s achievements rather than its potential.' << l0l!!
asciilifeform: in re the chickens, i cannot disagree, they are clucking not so far from where i sit, at the local 'university'
asciilifeform: in part it was. it is how he came up with the terrifyingly ugly 20-equations-in-20-unknowns thing
asciilifeform: ( recall, herr maxwell was quite unable to visualize the system he worked with, without resorting to mechanical - yes - gears and pulleys )
asciilifeform: one of these days i'd like to learn who rotted j. c. maxwell's brain, and with what
asciilifeform: euclid nervously smokes in the corner
asciilifeform: objection was, fundamentally, 'os that prompts for pw is promisetronic, can retain pw if it wants'
asciilifeform: but block ciphers, it turns out, don't exist...
asciilifeform: to which there was a counter, 'cipher with hardware interposer between disk and comp'
asciilifeform: so at the time, the logical objection was 'pwned comp will merrily present the familiar pw prompt and decrypt for enemy'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interestingly enough, we had this thread prior to the 'block ciphers don't even exist' thread.
asciilifeform: and go from it, to ???., very slowly.
asciilifeform: so potentially we could 'scheme in asm with uart' on that.
asciilifeform: now switching from the depressive tack, to the crackpot track, i ~did~ get high speed uart going on one of those all-in-one amd64 boxes.☟︎
asciilifeform: consider how the thing expects real-time (1000s/sec) interrupt handling, but ALSO has 1,001 places where you must busy-wait for some register bit to flip
