asciilifeform: try it yerself.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1503939 << gloves suck donkey cock, for same reason as laser keyboard etc. -- no mechanical resistance, no damper. ☝︎

asciilifeform: try it yourself.

asciilifeform: np-complete.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1503942 << circuit is netlist, but part placement is not meaningfully automatable. ☝︎

asciilifeform: smt.

asciilifeform: i work in 2d on mm scale and move, rotate

asciilifeform: it must be stronger than mine

asciilifeform: what is ben_vulpes drinking?

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1503930 << spaceball is not a precision instrument, i have one,it is only good for camera angle movement ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'we'll make people use a nonaddrrssable stack! for own good!111'

asciilifeform: but think, the sheer, monumental, militant pissing idiocy of the idea

asciilifeform: like DEP, will have to kill it to run any serious proggy

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-16#1503901 << no shit ☝︎

asciilifeform: make winblowz safe for demoooooceacy!

asciilifeform: like ethertardium.

asciilifeform: dedicated control stack! not overflowable Because We Said So!11111

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-16#1503882 << i've been waiting for this idiocy for ages ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: e.g., http://i.stack.imgur.com/kY2st.jpg

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no siliconoil radiators in ar ?

asciilifeform: waking up.

asciilifeform: 'morning mod6

asciilifeform: my archaeological work turned up no such thing.

asciilifeform: 'not shakespeare, but man of the same name!' (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: or is this some other mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: lel, who's the old fella in mircea_popescu's avatar pic

asciilifeform: l0l! incl ro ?

asciilifeform slept through this.

asciilifeform: why would usg wish to dethrone erdogan ? did he threaten to leave nato, or wat

asciilifeform: or sumthing.

asciilifeform: latest word is, they blew up tr parliament ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what, hoax ?

asciilifeform: phf: shame it only came with 486

asciilifeform: at least geometrically speaking.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503686 << early '90s laptops had almost-civilized keyboards ☝︎

asciilifeform: and everything to do with reading b00kz

asciilifeform: my interest in '90s pocket gadgets has nothing to do with calendars.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503652 << i use, for the most part, my head. but my schedule is not very complicated. ☝︎

asciilifeform: i still have nfi which, precisely, parrot, these are.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503681 << i went with ben_vulpes and chetty and fed these parrots. ☝︎

asciilifeform: thing wasn't even pushed that hard.

asciilifeform: but only posted the moduli, and none of the other data

asciilifeform: claimed sks.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-15#1503640 << published factors, but not where the fuck he got the pubkeys ☝︎

asciilifeform: which news

asciilifeform: which nonsense

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: waiwut

asciilifeform: aha - human pig

asciilifeform: 'human pig' ?

asciilifeform: lel, by pound? mircea_popescu has some hungry pirannhas or wat.

asciilifeform: can gas in real time.

asciilifeform: y'know, warehousing folks prior to gassing is optional

asciilifeform: the whole statist orchestra depends on plugging whatever possible exits, at all cost

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun see that capitulation as a possibility.

asciilifeform: not to mention that 'save you from doom' entails uncertainty and ergo lemon market, whereas 'pay me to kill x' is immediately evaluatable

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: and on top of this, nobody knows what 'market price' of bug is

asciilifeform: mats: possibly

asciilifeform: (or,more often, tell you to piss off)

asciilifeform: *you're

asciilifeform: and if yet not aryan enough, they'll simply swallow the goodz and pay 0

asciilifeform: like des prior.

asciilifeform: hey that's what it was built for.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most likely, pile sits around busting aes.

asciilifeform: 'want a glass of beer..? here's a pile of hydrogen, go, fuse'

asciilifeform: i suppose old muppet tore, new one is being readied.

asciilifeform: but yes, every servant of evil has some rock he once crawled out under from

asciilifeform: not having a staff of latrine divers, nor esp. inclined myself, i tend to be a little behind on such tidbits

asciilifeform: but i'd be the last to know

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: they called up the tardreservez?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all i could find is 'sheriff concludes that only bomber died' and 'attempted revenge on boss'

asciilifeform: phf: in the logz already

asciilifeform: clearly tr deeesperately wants into eu!1111

asciilifeform: because lolcats dun look so hot on a 480x320 lcd.

asciilifeform: but no such thing exists or is ever likely to.

asciilifeform: anyway, exotic lcd aside, i would HAPPILY buy a device with newton's lcd but modern (lightweight) micro inside.

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk << obligatory.

asciilifeform: nobody, afaik, has done anything of the kind.

asciilifeform: even as a one-of-a-kind handmade thing

asciilifeform: i know of 0 exceptions.

asciilifeform: pretty much all amateur attempts at portable computer are comically clunky.

asciilifeform: where will you get it ?

asciilifeform: and betcha it wants 12v

asciilifeform: trinque: bigger than a palm V !!

asciilifeform: no 2 'tablets' , afaik, have interchangeable lcd.

asciilifeform: and this is not a problem with qi specifically, but with konsoomer crapolade in general.

asciilifeform: my point was that the thing will fit in no recent portable gadget.

asciilifeform: trinque: have fun carrying board and desktop around...

asciilifeform: you could try to locate one of the laptops they worked with (qi was sold as an after-market add-on thing) but they weren't much to write home about.

asciilifeform: thing doesn't take anything like a vga or dvi input.

asciilifeform: trinque: even if you could buy the panel (they do appear on, e.g., ebay, regularly) -- where do you intend to put it ?

asciilifeform: mega-unsurprise.

asciilifeform: i'ma guess it now services usg (e.g., 'general dynamics' army laptops) solely. ☟︎

asciilifeform: trinque: where can anything containing 'pixel qi' be bought ?

asciilifeform: trinque: manufacturing for whom ?

asciilifeform: i guess modern konsooomer is expected to sit in a cave, like a mole, and not try to use machinery in the sun

asciilifeform: a decade or so ago, there was an outfit ('pixel qi') that purported to sell sunlight-viewable displays, they were, iirc, well-received, but also died.

asciilifeform: epaper is a disappointment, imho; there was some promising tech in 'static lcd' (which draws 0 current when holding image) while retaining the speed/crispness; but afaik it died.

asciilifeform: and a more recent unit, with frontlight, which i gave to pet, i could not abide the lack of mechanical switches