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asciilifeform: it is also possible that folks were afraid of voided warranties
asciilifeform: 'fuckoff'
asciilifeform: but always same reply.
asciilifeform: and many many folks begged management to buy our thing
asciilifeform: fwiw he was well placed in biochem wot
asciilifeform: yes.
asciilifeform: together, we pitched.
asciilifeform: (ph.d. in his 60s)
asciilifeform: my partner is not nearly as inept as i
asciilifeform: tried to get vc even, also silence
asciilifeform: we hired nobody, had no money.
asciilifeform: what's that mean
asciilifeform: it all ended with crickets chirping
asciilifeform: to 5-6 labs
asciilifeform: fwiw i pitched.
asciilifeform: but anyone does ?
asciilifeform: skip the ransomware, the usgola, etc.
asciilifeform: but do you see folks doing it ?
asciilifeform: see, mircea_popescu, simply NOT USING WINBLOWZ is a guaranteed gain in ANY conveyor!
asciilifeform: could not, naturally, make this claim for an ms !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is specifically for robot arms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every unit is slightly different.
asciilifeform: fell through each time.
asciilifeform: tried 4, 5 times to buy a used one.
asciilifeform: when the lab closed, we lost access to the thing.
asciilifeform: sad thing is that i can't easily demo. my outfit never afforded own tecan.
asciilifeform: because the alternative is the one discussed.
asciilifeform: PeterL: everyone uses the thing that comes with the instrument.
asciilifeform: now iam remembering things about lm, i had many nice things, had motion planning, could run the thing 10-20x faster thaan 'evoware' (we called it 'evilware') because mine was ~guaranteed~ not to crash, etc.
asciilifeform: methinks i am learning.
asciilifeform: i came here to learn from him !
asciilifeform: what can i say , mircea_popescu is better arsonist than i
asciilifeform: which is what i am.
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: anywy this was long ago and now mircea_popescu knows some of the perspective it gave.
asciilifeform: anywhere there is moving gizmos.
asciilifeform: e.g., production line
asciilifeform: applicable to other industrial uses incidentally
asciilifeform: l0lk
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: i busted arse to make that thing. and afaik nothing like it exists to this day.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu has it.
asciilifeform: 100% lisp btw.
asciilifeform: crickets.
asciilifeform: not china, not north kr, not fuucking antarktica
asciilifeform: or half a shit.
asciilifeform: no one gave a shit.
asciilifeform: so what if the thing let me use a 5k usd spectrophotometre instead of 50k golden toilet that has FEWER wavelengths ?!
asciilifeform: 0 sales.
asciilifeform: long ago.
asciilifeform: narrated, even, by yers truly
asciilifeform: (linked)
asciilifeform: see my film.
asciilifeform: robot.
asciilifeform: but no.
asciilifeform: one would THINK this would make a diff to someone !>?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notably, my tecan proggy allows user to use non-branded furniture in the machine.
asciilifeform: and, notably, my phone does NOT ring with folks asking for reversed hw.
asciilifeform: aha and their idiot crud runs for winblowz.
asciilifeform: NONE
asciilifeform: or brazilian or wtf
asciilifeform: NO open chinese or russian either
asciilifeform: well no shit!
asciilifeform: etc.
asciilifeform: etc.
asciilifeform: NO open gc.
asciilifeform: NO open mass spec.
asciilifeform: NO open spectrophotometer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is NO open lab automation sys.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: story is in the logz iirc.
asciilifeform: they hungy up once i explained that 'no this is not a winblows app, it is not a plugin for yours, it replaces 'evoware' '
asciilifeform: no shit, the swiss
asciilifeform: we even got a call with the hw vendor
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: believe or not, when this was new, i even blew a few hundy on... google ads
asciilifeform: ~still~ for sale...
asciilifeform: http://www.molboxllc.com/products.html << mandatory spam
asciilifeform: yes.
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 20,000+
asciilifeform: because 'eh it runs anyway, so what if a postdoc has to babysit it'
asciilifeform: and, INTERESTINGLY, i owned the copyright, and then spun off the thing as product, and NO ONE BOUGHT
asciilifeform: but i was not ~hired to do this~, but for something else, i did it as an extra thing
asciilifeform: !s tecan
asciilifeform: story is in the logz.
asciilifeform: de-winblowzated it.
asciilifeform: btw i once spent year+ reversing (successfully) an instrument.
asciilifeform: anywhere.
asciilifeform: there must not BE a 'blackhole tx' button.
asciilifeform: ^
asciilifeform: PeterL: they can collude to kill you
asciilifeform: quite impossible, actually, afaik.
asciilifeform: it is in the logz even.
asciilifeform: take naggum's list.
asciilifeform: my list is not complete until i'm dead...
asciilifeform: go and make a set of ~eyes~ for the books to be read by.
asciilifeform: over past years.
asciilifeform: and i listed many of them here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the books are the EASY PART
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform is one... )
asciilifeform: and anyway there's ~6 people you can hire to do the isa card.