asciilifeform: i can even tell you what is in store for epaper aficionados: the thing will be colourized, and the original b&w version will be taken off the market; just as with lcd; the colour version will be blurrier and less suitable for text, but WATCH LOLCATS YOU TERRORIST
asciilifeform: it was a reasonable simulacrum of handwriting, for short inputs, rather than a futile banging of your fingers against unresponsive surface
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: palm pilot script was useful.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the usg that promulgates diddled ciphers which are then breakable with array of fpga, and the usg that puts my mail into the box across the street, are not same entity.
asciilifeform: (we know that ??? eats plenty of mains current, and requires titanic coolers, just like the old crays; and likewise that it does not consist wholly of stock x86 boxes.)
asciilifeform: after the demise of cray, the old machines were decommissioned, and replaced with ???
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: recall that usg sits on top of egyptian pyramid - sized heap of fpga. why not, then, hijack an old, familiar scrypt-based altcoin, and proclaim 'see, YES WE CAN!111' etc☟︎
asciilifeform: even 'deluxe paint II' for amiga (!) beats the shit out of gimp.☟︎
asciilifeform: (anyone who brings up gimp immediately reveals himself as someone who never drew anything more complex than 'rageface')
asciilifeform: likewise there is no open drawing proggy worth half a sparrow's fart
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it is a trivial technical problem, that will likely never be solved, because there is no open cad proggy worth a sparrow's fart.
asciilifeform: 'validation is for distrustful terrorists'
asciilifeform: 'Adoption of Xtreme Thinblocks (Xthin) such that all implementations have interoperable fast block propagation. Results from recent testing involving nodes both inside and outside Mainland China indicates that blocks up to 20MB are manageable for the network.' << 'crock of shit will collapse overnight if clients actually try to validate mega-blox, so forget about it'
asciilifeform: 'we won't anally roger you, but we will insert this painless road cone, in advance, and you will not even feel it when it is replaced with cock'
asciilifeform: 'Making non-mining full nodes “fork-tolerant” by decoupling them from the miners with respect to the prevailing block size limit. There is no need for ordinary node owners to upgrade as and when miners do, or accept a risky “flag day” event. Bitcoin Unlimited already has fork-tolerant nodes via BUIP001 where non-mining nodes always track the longest Proof-of-Work chain, and are agnostic to block version resizing flags.' << l0
asciilifeform: shinohai: contingent of fresh shills? i did say, they will never run out
asciilifeform: and i know of no particular reason why not.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i do, e.g., cad, and would like to be able to, say, rotate a part by pinning it with a pen, and turning the pen. but this does not, afaik, exist.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: it is possible to read the raw numbers from the pen, in linux, yes - even tilt angles. but afaik there is no proggy that usefully eats them.
asciilifeform: and re: last night's 'keep on truckin'!' >> 'An eyewitness to the attack described the driver as "a young guy, very focused on what he was doing." "He didn't looking angry," John Lambert told CBC News. "He wasn't screaming or shouting. He was just … focusing on the job."' ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nice-truck-bastille-day-1.3680294 )
asciilifeform: this would handily eliminate alignment as a thing.
asciilifeform: re: earlier thread: i'm a little surprised that nobody (afaik) has combined the sensing antennae of 'wacom'-like apparatus into the lcd pixel addressing lines themselves.
asciilifeform: and creaks at the seams, no matter what you do.
asciilifeform: long ago, i tried my hand at 'sane blogging engine' and barfed; simply can't stand wwwtronic idiocy, e.g,. 'logging in', 'browser state', https crapolade tower, css, etc.☟︎
asciilifeform: if anybody reading this has used one of them gadgets, plz write in.☟︎
asciilifeform: apparently there is now 7 types of this thing, since i last saw (decade or so ago.)
