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asciilifeform: win.
asciilifeform: l0L!!
asciilifeform: $up gabriel_laddel
asciilifeform: and watch the paperworks.
asciilifeform: go buy nitric acid.
asciilifeform: (usg doesn't really, despite the pretense, much care re pea shooter)
asciilifeform: in much of usa, it is easier to buy kalash than roundbottom flask.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-09-29#850232 << see also. ☝︎
asciilifeform: probably elsewhere.
asciilifeform: in new york, you can (or at least once could) be imprisoned for 'unlicensed' beaker.
asciilifeform: terrible material.
asciilifeform: i must point out, glass is seldom used in chemical industry proper
asciilifeform: (iirc they use old fire extinguishers for pressure vessel now)
asciilifeform: the leuckart wallach reaction, or the grignard, or whatever other processes, work ok in stainless steel
asciilifeform: you don't even need glass! for meth.
asciilifeform: (the high-temp variant needs an oxygen flame and is tricky to work)
asciilifeform: incidentally before the invention of borosilicate glass, it was customary for chemists to blow their own labware. ☟︎
asciilifeform: proper labware - e.g., roundbottoms - are, afaik, still genuine borosilicate
asciilifeform: shinohai: why's that
asciilifeform: at least in quantity.
asciilifeform: and if you ask mircea_popescu it is difficult to get so much as a stapler in buenos aires ☟︎
asciilifeform: work it out yerself.
asciilifeform: soda lime glass will not.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: pyrex is ~4% boron by mass, ought to have absorption line there.
asciilifeform: http://nowiknow.com/the-war-against-pyrex << for n000bz. ☟︎
asciilifeform: (the owners of the trademark are cashing in, in the familiar american style, by selling exploding junk glass instead) ☟︎
asciilifeform: *real one
asciilifeform: simple pocket spectroscope that would let you distinguish shit-faux-pyrex from the real on, in a shop. ☟︎
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i had an idea re pyrex, a few yrs ago
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyXMEpq4qw << mega-classic.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel is fond of glass ?
asciilifeform: but never anything serious or remarkable.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i've worked glass.
asciilifeform: $up gabriel_laddel
asciilifeform: the very same! i missed it.
asciilifeform: several, in fact.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1494280 << dunno about other folx but i have a parachute packed for this. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ok in that sense, yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am quite familiar with this strategy, given as it was the u.s. army's unofficial doctrine for chemical warfare (eat butyrylcholinesterase 'bioscavenger' antidote, then release sarin)
asciilifeform: ah hm now i recall mircea_popescu had a piece about spamming derps to death
asciilifeform: srs q.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's the use of spamming reddit ?
asciilifeform: cuckfusion.
asciilifeform: any tighter and they fuse.
asciilifeform: they are packed rather tightly.
asciilifeform: i meant the cockz
asciilifeform: slotin holding them hemispheres apart with cock.
asciilifeform: ^ this has got to be near-critical mass or sumthing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l! what's the signature of ?
asciilifeform: phf: last week's nyooz
asciilifeform: S. Secret Service only discovered once it was ordered by a court to pay a portion of the seizure back to affected claimants,”...' << gold
asciilifeform: 'According to an affidavit unsealed Thursday, the Justice Department learned in April 2015 that Bridges might have kept a private cryptographic key giving him access to a bitcoin wallet with the $700,000 in currency that the Silk Road task force had seized in 2014. The department urged the agency to move the funds elsewhere. “Unfortunately, the U.S. Secret Service did not do so and the funds were thereafter stolen, something the U.
asciilifeform: new.
asciilifeform: like the last dozen or so.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: flipolade.
asciilifeform: hm
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can always skip the 'church of' prefix.
asciilifeform: ratin' folx - sacrament.
asciilifeform: incidentally, re http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-30#1493235 - i suggest 'church of integrity' - loosely from hanbot's 'shall be delivered' ☝︎
asciilifeform: these are standard americanisms used by registered chur^H^H^H^Hnonprofits
asciilifeform: nah that's next year's!111
asciilifeform: 'This year's challenge (detailed below) is a real-world problem in nuclear verification, sponsored by and designed in partnership with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (http://www.nti.org/), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to reduce the threat of ...'
asciilifeform: in other 'news', this year's underhanded c contest is a lul: http://underhanded-c.org/#summary
asciilifeform: anyway no riced pipes in this one.
asciilifeform: oh honda
asciilifeform: was it an 'ural' ??
asciilifeform: lel!
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=52 , http://www.loper-os.org/?p=53 << console.
asciilifeform: pulls ~= same wattage as a large vacuum cleaner, and sounds also very much like one when operating.
asciilifeform: ^ thing is about the size of pc fulltower, but weighs ~40kg, and console - similar
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=51 << for anyone trying to follow thread
asciilifeform: i had 3620 because poorfag
asciilifeform: ~indestructible.
asciilifeform: (can x11 into it)
asciilifeform: and doesn't need console
asciilifeform: takes scsi disks
asciilifeform: xl is spiffy
asciilifeform: btw if i had phf 's xl, i wouldn't sell
asciilifeform: run moar microshit!111
asciilifeform: mats: how's that
asciilifeform: and an empty tape drive chassis.
asciilifeform: also buncha dud boards for various xl machines
asciilifeform: old console, strictly, and 1 triax cable.
asciilifeform: i have both old and new-type kbd.
asciilifeform: takin' bids..
asciilifeform: office.
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: adlai: machine can be in silver spring, md, working, on a week's notice.
asciilifeform: if in wot
asciilifeform: yes.
asciilifeform: result of long stretch in butugychag
asciilifeform has a ~very~ acute perception of the value of his time
asciilifeform: if thing were worth 20k, then perhaps
asciilifeform: basically the exercise isn't worth my time for what i am likely to expend in time and what can realistically sell for.
asciilifeform: anyway it can only be sold via wot, because buyer has to take my word that the thing isn't ~currently~ the pile of scrap it will almost certainly turn into when it moves.
asciilifeform: the box is on track to star in asciilifeform's peine forte et dure.
asciilifeform: and aint trusting strangers.
asciilifeform: aint got none in my meatwot.
asciilifeform: adlai: i dun keep one on retainer, sadly
asciilifeform: *my kitchen