asciilifeform: meanwhile, in olds, asciilifeform's 'xor 2 small numbers'+'say fg baud' spam filter seems to be 100% effective (a 1st?!) -- 0 spams in trap since installed ( legit comments , not many , but work -- tho there were never many )☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i hate to create headache, but plox to cut it into a 3 and a 1 , i'ma fill the 3 nao and the 1 when my hot noad actually syncs ( loox like ~wk left )
asciilifeform: grr loox like i haven't filled it up to 4 either , nm
asciilifeform: ftr : grep --color='auto' -P -n "[\x80-\xFF]" file locates uniturds ( if yer 'grep' supports perlism )
asciilifeform: phf: i found & removed the last uniturd ( was in the manifest.txt , from the day i made it ) . this however means that there in fact lies a uniturd in the 18 patch ( the removal line , naturally . ) after this i expect no moar .
asciilifeform: if anyone's impatient, i'll link to the vpatch/seal, otherwise it'll wait for the text
asciilifeform: patch also cut & signed . is pretty large at ~50kB , but actually ranks behind ch14, 15, 11 (not speaking of genesis/1 lol)
asciilifeform: $item was interesting largely for the description of eltsin-era navy , what with 'get spare parts somewhere, we won't say where' , 'you'll be paid next year' , questionable rations, boats sinking in dock, & related joys
asciilifeform: ( the 48,000 tonne thing, btw, in natostan called for some reason 'typhoon', rather than the smaller. pretty interesting machine in own right, largest undersea vessel ever built )
asciilifeform recently read a pretty spiffy , and i dare say mircea_popescu-flavoured ( good % was re how, where, whom, the folx fucked ) memoir of sovok 'akula' sub officer in '90s. d00d was moar or less 'meat computer'
asciilifeform: thing was run kinda like trinque's wallet.
asciilifeform: but otoh it dun require a crew of 4 d00dz raising/lowering rods 24/7
asciilifeform: granted the jp item not as efficient, if you recall it's the pellet thing , built for constant output
asciilifeform: ( for comparison, standard sovok sub reactor, somewhat larger affair, approx the size of mircea_popescu's bmw , was good for 20-30y of 300-400 MW )
asciilifeform: at the wattage a reasonably-sized brit lord's house might theoretically have appetite for, the fuel would last for century or 2
asciilifeform: marketed to same landed gentry folx who e.g. kept own coal-fired generators stocked 24/7 on the estate , in early days of electric light
asciilifeform: seems like was a pyre to conspicuously burn money in, as it was
asciilifeform: as it is, i dun fully grasp the appeal
asciilifeform: in e.g. arctic circle , 'aga' would be a++ product
asciilifeform: price of coal was a constant ? or vendor proposed to guarantee it ? )
asciilifeform: 'The AGA is the only cooker in the world with a guaranteed maximum fuel consumption. It is guaranteed to burn less than £4 worth of fuel a year….. Stress the fact that no cook can make her AGA burn more fuel than this, however stupid, extravagant or careless she may be, or however much she may cook. If more fuel is consumed, it is being stolen, and the police should be called in immediately' << strikes me as peculiar claim ( what,
asciilifeform: i suspect largely evaporated by '30s tho ; so not sure what the author was thinking
asciilifeform: and ubiquitous terminology there to this day, survived revolution and eltsins alike, парадный вход / черный вход ( 'parade entrance' , i.e. for people, 'black entrance' , i.e. for servants + garbage )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know, lived in just such back in orcistan
asciilifeform: as i understand 'aga' is ~the~ prototype for the current-day ubiquitous kitchen stove
asciilifeform: ( most ameri-housing either has no back door , or glass thing that goes into fenced yard and defo no marketer would ever go there, liable to be bitten by dog or worse )
asciilifeform: 'There are certain universal rules. Dress quietly and shave well. Do not wear a bowler hat. Go to the back door (most salesmen go to the front door, a manoeuvre always resented by maid and mistress alike)'
asciilifeform: whereas today, behold, you can go into 'embassy of latvia', where folx hand-picked by washington dos will show you in which queue to sit etc
asciilifeform: there was no e.g. 'embassy of latvia', only of sovok
asciilifeform: rly they oughtta take a page from the old sovok, and unify the thing, save on cost of printing stationary
asciilifeform: entirely possible to argue that no such thing as 'nederlanden' embassy, it's simply branch office of washington's
asciilifeform: rright and when no army, what then means embassy ?
asciilifeform: or let's even recall that 'bitcoin embassy' mircea_popescu dug up
asciilifeform: embassy as i understand it, as concept , pre-dates not only pubkey but even telegraph , and was never fully upgraded , rly expects to operate on meat-to-meat ( and witness usg delightfully exploiting this, creats all kinds fake embassies , i went coupla yrs ago to , believe, tour of 'iraq embassy' , 100% usg.blue creation )
asciilifeform: i suspect that if all-comers could actually submit the paper , place would looke like sovok 'avir'
asciilifeform: or gotta 'unprincipled exception' to even ~begin~ to do the job
asciilifeform: rright but could do their job , if in fact findable 'like mcdonalds' ?
asciilifeform: as plebe , asciilifeform would in fact prefer if they said up-front ' if yer mother didn't go to school with his majesty's , dun bother knocking ' , it'd waste less of his time
asciilifeform: ( and if 'but i'm mircea_popescu , why would i have to stand in queue' --guesswat , already didn't have to , eh. so where is the problem with the mechanism of why didn't have to ? )
asciilifeform: picture if had to stand in a queue of erry idjit who googled
