asciilifeform: the chinese by all appearances are 'greedy algorithm', with no notion of strategy to speak of, nor any detectable ideological spine.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i rather doubt ☝︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a 'miamistan' in the essence is where the brass occupies self primarily with padding foreign acct , buying villas in reich, setting up their spawn to same, etc

asciilifeform: their last fuhrer who wasn't feathering an overseas nest was andropov.

asciilifeform: re: current-day ru -- despite the 'pr' and the appearance of 'uppitiness', it is still a miamistan. the '90s did not actually end there.

asciilifeform: tbf ~same can be said for usg, where -- similarly -- the only '100% uptime' items are pdp11/microvax/etc where likewise '70s-'80s lsi and likewise no net etc

asciilifeform: errything which ~does~ hang off the net there, is same familiar shitware as in reich, i presently know of no evidence of an exception existing.

asciilifeform: ( and that none of these hang off the net, elementarily on acct of clock too slow to run even 10M/s nic.. ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: really the only reason ru has any working weapons systems at all is that they were all designed in '70s-'80s sovok and run on 4uM 'k1801' ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform observes that 6y after snowdenism, ru still runs on winblowz, the mythical 'elbrus' still ~unobtainable (and likely the demo units run poettering-linux) , etc

asciilifeform: i suspect that trinque is right tho, and assange had some sorta cockroach in his head re 'honest press exists and will wake up' etc

asciilifeform: tbf normally reich subject needs visa for moscow ( i dun know how, precisely, s got around this on moment's notice ) ☟︎

asciilifeform: what i dunget is whythefuq he was in londonistan to begin with

asciilifeform: meanwhile in heathen lulz, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-martyrdom-of-st-julian.html

asciilifeform brb:tea

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: ( cuz, elementarily , no kg+ of slide goin' back an' forth )

asciilifeform: with hour or 2 practice, novice can hit dinner plate at 40 metres

asciilifeform: nagant is a pleasure to shoot, btw ( if famously underpowered by modern standards )

asciilifeform: in orig. factory grease

asciilifeform: ( e.g. mosin rifles, nagant revolvers, for <100 )

asciilifeform: naodays mostly gone

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: when sovok folded , usa market was awash in grade-a 'museum' small arms , for pennies

asciilifeform: ( iirc we had thread -- i started with a... cranequin )

asciilifeform: but similar effect!1

asciilifeform: lol actually the item from concan doyle's 'the empty house'

asciilifeform: ( afaik that's the only source of nondeterminism , at least for particular frozen gcc pov )

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: the 'snip out timestamp nonsense from gcc' thing has been itching since '15 ☟︎

asciilifeform: *it was

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: was built to be debugged, it their 1st (and last) piece of in-house silicon

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: not entirely arbitrary, there was a ~massive~ increase in bulk + documented wtf's at 5.0

asciilifeform: ( funny thing, it actually has a debug pin that pisses out microcode index of current microinstruction )

asciilifeform: thing moves at 8mhz and has slightly more than 100 active signal lines, not esp. tall order.

asciilifeform: little flex pcb thing, inserts under the 'ivory' and brings the signals out to analyzer. ☟︎

asciilifeform: 1st item tho will be to bake the cpu interposer i drew up the day i got the seekritdirt.

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i've deliberately not gone beyond 'read papers in hammock' stage for bolixism, on acct of this.

asciilifeform: next item on conveyor is pizarro battlefield. but prolly can run in parallel.

asciilifeform: ( will add 'rotate' and 'conventional exponent' , that's it for them )

asciilifeform: i dun expect to make any major changes to the numerics, however

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: at least month -- there's a heavy piece i haven't even started yet -- keccak

asciilifeform: i've been slowly eating the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-01#1906471 + relateds, and seeing exactly how this was baked, it is quite interesting. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-04-23#1909401 << whatever else can be said re bolix -- they had the Right Thing pill for this. 'yes you can build a c proggy on this iron; no it won't win you 'speed'.' ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: tho i do find it interesting, that it is difficult ( unlike on von neumann cpu ) to write a fpga filling that 'worx sometimes'

asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: it still gotta be eaten & characterized, if to be used.

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: nifty

asciilifeform: still 'buchapest' ?

asciilifeform: an' you, mp_en_viaje ?

asciilifeform: ffa text massage , mostly

asciilifeform: ohai mp_en_viaje !

asciilifeform: here of course also 'sun and wind'. but + also swamp.

asciilifeform: ( i.e. what you hang out, gets wetter, not dryer )

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i have neighbours who use clotheslines; the prob is that these ~dunwork ~atall over here 4-5 months of year

asciilifeform: PeterL: thinking moar re travel applications

asciilifeform: err 2.3

asciilifeform: imho would still be useful tho, to have a suitcase-sized item that can wash and dry a single shirt..

asciilifeform: i suppose you'd still have to supply the 23kj/kg or what was the heat of enthalpy

asciilifeform: granted you need a reasonably thick and airtight pot for this

asciilifeform: but it only takes ~100w for perhaps ~hour to draw a coupla buckets' sized vacuum

asciilifeform: rright cuz otherwise it'd eat 5kw

asciilifeform: no electric service where you live ?

asciilifeform: PeterL: why wouldja want to run the pump on gas?!

asciilifeform: lol whythefuq

asciilifeform: ( every dry anyffin under vacuum ? )

asciilifeform: easily 10x less current for same result, and no moar firehazard etc.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: here's an old asciilifeform crackpottery : why exactly can't one buy clothes dryer that runs on vacuum pump, instead of heater. ☟︎

asciilifeform: iirc sovok was 1st to chrome inside , they carried on using corrosive hg-based primer in shell long past when others quit

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i thought this was standard, from end of ww2 to present day

asciilifeform: at 1 time, they were sold in usa for next to nuffin, aha

asciilifeform: item dates to late '40s

asciilifeform: dunno where you will see a shiny one, outside of museum

asciilifeform: where there was a d00d in old-style austrohungarian uniform but with old sovok rifle

asciilifeform: PeterL: the sks comment was re mp's budapest 'changing of the guard' photo

asciilifeform: PeterL: in city , can't use anyffin that can be heard even from across street

asciilifeform: PeterL: unrelated threads.

asciilifeform: PeterL: lolno

asciilifeform: wtf

asciilifeform: lol, is this the usual 'ohnoez, what if a legate from clintonistan sees a dead horse!111' ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: refuel scheduled, nao waiting' for the traditional telephonic tea ceremony from bank etc

asciilifeform: ugh, lost at sea?!

asciilifeform: !#seen ave1

asciilifeform: seems like that there's the 1st item to fix.

asciilifeform: hm.

asciilifeform: has anyone attempted to build the whole orchestra on ave1's gcc ?

asciilifeform: trinque: makes sense

asciilifeform: trinque: speaking moar from concrete than theoretical pov -- gcc5 has documented 'optimizations' that remove bounds checks

asciilifeform really must dust off the old notes and try this with own hands; the presence of gcc5 in the build bothers asciilifeform not only from 'practical' but from thompsonistic pov

asciilifeform: ( i.e. w/ gcc4.9 )

asciilifeform: but seems like oughta be doable for a gentoo

asciilifeform: i was able to bake a musl 'busybox' linux for pogo in '15, but admittedly this was not a gentoo

asciilifeform: ( and that no one had baked a musl stage3 that could be worked from that had <5 ? )

asciilifeform: trinque: as i understand , orig problem is that the stage3 shipped a gcc6 ?

asciilifeform: ty

asciilifeform: trinque: do you perchance have the thread handy

asciilifeform: hm

asciilifeform: !#s from:trinque gcc5

asciilifeform: indeed it wasnt

asciilifeform: incl. for a 2gb rk box

asciilifeform: i.e. i was able to build conventional gentoo ( per my old recipe ) w/out any such thing in the mix ☟︎

asciilifeform: spyked: i admit that i still dunget why it needs the gcc5 step