asciilifeform: in other negative results , 'Fuji Super HR-T' film dun budge 1 whit under 'Cinestill DF96' developer. tho in principle oughta.
asciilifeform: those, them'd be the top of that particular mmm pyramid, neh. they show up and shown 'yes indeed money for phree, but only if you can get 9000 rubes to show up for erry 1 of you, and deposit penny to play'
asciilifeform: that's how fresh-off-the-plow peasant sees city always, neh -- 'where money for free'. not so much leap from that to this.
asciilifeform: apropos of nuffin : mircea_popescu can you think of any reason why laue diffraction wouldn't work on a ic die ? seems like nobody ever fessed up to having tried. what am i missing
asciilifeform at one time did work that put'im in contact with these folx. met a d00d who, convincingly, described playing 'call of duty: iraq' on... lappy, in actual iraq☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: maybe i slept through it, but did a plague kill off the midwestern farm boys who obediently 'die for the motherland'(tm)(r) or wut
asciilifeform: made for some pretty lulzy reading on the airplane
asciilifeform: 'no one has yet created body armor with air conditioning built in' << iirc this was actually commissioned during usg's iraq adventure. ( or at the very least, a golden toilet contract was issued for it, i have nfi what the accompanying theatrical prop looked like, and whether anyone bothered to produce )
asciilifeform: ha loox like i had mircea_popescu's pictured earbud. it's the only thing that worked with my crystal set
asciilifeform has sovok pocket radio also ! was pretty great, actually , ran on 9v, and covered in troo leather, was a joy to hold in hands.
asciilifeform at one time owned 'mp3 player', was this brick that connected to parallel port...
asciilifeform: world's saddest mp3 player, possibly second only to sony's
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was an actual box, that was sold for something like decade. but again nuffin you'd want to try an' operate.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you wouldn't want one if you found one . they're the orig 'you must crapple to upload files' item.
asciilifeform: ( i.e. accumulates stupid , from all possible inputs , rather than somehow factoring out )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's other pt, tho, i gotta entirely agree with -- the item is a stupidity summer
asciilifeform: superficially similar to working airplane, but actually dead end tech
asciilifeform: imho closer to the wing-flappy 'airplane'.
asciilifeform sees it as having been ~stillborn to begin with : ersatz pseudo-hypertext, with broken links, inability to link to fragments in any reliable way, megatonne of hacks req'd to overcome these while introducing novel and intractable breakages, etc
asciilifeform suspects that at some pt 'proggies for interfacing to heathendom' will become 'genre'
asciilifeform: defo premature, esp. in light of prospect of e.g. ditching tcp
asciilifeform: the four rivets also of interest, they're transparent at 35kV, but would like to know why they are there, do they actually hold down the lid, or is there also glue etc
asciilifeform: next thing there will be a 45 deg. shot, to find what side the die is even on
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-01#1899892 << the xray setup is really for the pcb (not done yet, but film is here.) the ic shot is so possibly to figure out where to cut, right nao i have 3 ~different~ packages, so if i cut one and smash it , doesn't tell me anything useful re how to try again, it's a 'measure 7777 times, cut 1ce' situation.☝︎
asciilifeform: as for server, iirc it's a pure diana_coman matter , and still in the worx
asciilifeform: pretty sure shinohai already built eulora client on musl
asciilifeform: trinque: i put it in its coffin in 2015, with 'rotor' , and wasn't even aware that there was contemplation of keeping it alive until mircea_popescu asked last mo
asciilifeform: it's gotta be the single most functional artifact that particular batch of africans ever put together
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re adacorpse's standard & compiler, the marvel aint that it's broken in places, but that it was built at all, and is even largely usable
asciilifeform: ( how would cut ? for the tin can, diamond engraving bit on cnc mill will prolly do the job without cutting the bonding wires. for the ceramic -- currently nfi, seems to have 4 anchor posts, prolly these are the ticket )
asciilifeform: interestingly, there appears to be 0 useful info on the net re how to get these open. ( lotsa crud re opening recent intels, and various dissolvable plastic DIPs, but not applicable )
asciilifeform: compare with the fg xilinx die , the latter has no fancy package, and is entirely homogeneous at 35kV.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's obv. vandalistic, what they do. but i'm pretty curious what you'd have'em do instead? maintain the standard on nights and weekends while writing java for microshit ?
asciilifeform: cuz that'd be interesting. i initially supposed that it was built as a 'lowest common denominator', i.e. without presumption that os supports preemption
asciilifeform: bvt: didja turn up a zcx version with working abort ?!
asciilifeform: ( ye olde msdos did not claim to implement multitasking at all, so dun really belong in this comparison, but the various bolt-on tsr systems for same also had this property )
asciilifeform: btw there were a great many 1990s os that behaved exactly like zcx model -- no preemption, tasks run until they yield or self-terminate. e.g. win9x, crapple os <= 9, etc
asciilifeform: bvt: i started with the supposition that it was built for irons where there is no time slicer , but currently nfi whether this is so, or whether was simply a kludge for no particular reason☟︎
asciilifeform: bvt: zcx is broken ~by design~, it doesn't attempt to implement preemptive multitasking at all.
asciilifeform aint about to use a closed turd compiler , regardless, for any practical work. but still finds the q of 'is there a standard-compliant adatron somewhere' not wholly uninteresting
