asciilifeform: ( cut and then what ? then -- (trad chemical!) photography. there aint nuffin in there that's any smaller than visible wavelength. )

asciilifeform: ( not today. and not tomorrow ; but asciilifeform would ~really~ not rather end up having a second http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-19#1881965 thrd ! when revving up the saw. ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: i have 3 units and xray to show precisely where to cut, and intend later this yr to start cutting !

asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf i hate to become 'thread necromancer', but would really like a resolution of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-28#1875722 & the related quandaries some time before i die of old age. plox to comment. ☝︎

asciilifeform: holyfuq the mustache on that d00d

asciilifeform brb:meat

asciilifeform: ( ftr, companion pieces, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=46 & http://www.loper-os.org/?p=448 )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did not know. but it's a fairly basic observation, and i expect it occurs regularly to mircea_popescu & other thinking folx when seriously thinking re 'wai pc sux'

asciilifeform has http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55 & other apropos.

asciilifeform sorta has entire www on this subj

asciilifeform: lazy expeller, blunt furca, or both

asciilifeform: iirc there was a site that had this js dosbox thing, for old games, some even ran. (it's no way to live, imho, tho)

asciilifeform: lol, even boots, but then 'Emulation aborted due to nested emulation timeout.'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's what bellard was doing instead of tcc.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'win nt in untaken branches' aha

asciilifeform: apu2 dun have a vga, for instance. ☟︎

asciilifeform: it won't boot.

asciilifeform: ( iirc trinque's orig. prototype was for the apu2 , is why it's there )

asciilifeform: hrm you defo dun want to build a kernel for a dulap-style machine with 'apu2' config

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun expect you'll want to eat the whole article, but it sums to quite a bag of lulz : can run entire proggy in the 'speculated' parallel universe, in such a way that it dun logically exist on e.g. by-the-book emulator, but only on post-2009 shitcpu

asciilifeform: guten tag mircea_popescu !

asciilifeform: ^ complete with 'speculative buffer overflow' & similar lulz. ☟︎

asciilifeform: ^ method for running entire proggies inside intel's 'speculative' nonsense iron

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in x86 lulz, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/wampler/index.html

asciilifeform loox forward to reading

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: ( tho it doesn't impact asciilifeform's current item , or afaik anything else just nao )

asciilifeform: it's an annoying bug, will have to be fixed.

asciilifeform: aha, i walked back and saw this, was needed for working build

asciilifeform: right, then.

asciilifeform: oh hm.

asciilifeform: ( i.e. was prior to the thread where diana_coman rebuilt ave1's )

asciilifeform: diana_coman: iirc what i cut was built with old-stype gnat16 neh ?

asciilifeform: !Q later tell diana_coman were you able to build a working ave1gnat with sjljism ? or is that still an open puzzler?

asciilifeform: guten tag mod6

asciilifeform: shinohai: not yet. it's on the conveyor tho.

asciilifeform: will read

asciilifeform: wb shinohai . what've you been up to these days ?

asciilifeform: btw if anyone here happens to come across 1 of these lolboxes, feel free to send to asciilifeform for xray ( if you want it back, will cost return postage )

asciilifeform: well, from poured-into-epoxy ???...

asciilifeform no longer specifically stampcollects these, but occasionally turns up by chance

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in yet-another-faux-FG : https://www.quintessencelabs.com/products/qstream-quantum-true-random-number-generator/

asciilifeform: spyked: http://nosuchlabs.com/pub/gutentext.tar.xz for nao ☟︎

asciilifeform: meanwhile, orlol meets world of lafond! >> http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-bad-can-things-possibly-get.html

asciilifeform: iirc BingoBoingo documented a number of similar zombies also

asciilifeform: sent his daughter to 'journalism' (iirc) school, just so to optimize for eventual miamiization ☟︎

asciilifeform: was 'textbook case' of 'miami of the central nervous system'

asciilifeform: i still remember that d00d i talked to in timis , where http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-03#1732376 ☝︎

asciilifeform: but from what clues BingoBoingo dug up prev, the vz folx have already 'let miami into their hearts'

asciilifeform: notbad, i suppose, if troo ☟︎

asciilifeform: or why, for that matter, not stormed pantsuit 'parliament' and dragged guiado out by the heels to the public stake ?

asciilifeform: for contrast -- recall how 'bay of pigs' went.

asciilifeform: *the border

asciilifeform: e.g. how come erry man of fighting age in vz aint on the boarder, pumping lead into the 'humanitarian convoy', manning ack-ack batteries, etc ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as i understand, maduro is on the chopping block; and i dun think these are unrelated

asciilifeform: soon enuff , when no moar castros, those bananistani will be living in mortgaged cardboard, eating mcd, and watching 'netflix', shitting out 'blogs' fulla malapropisms , an' ~nobody will remember any other time. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i have nfi how anyone can escape the conclusion that 'western civilization' of the past-50y model is in any way diff in effect than eating pb paint chips.

asciilifeform: or e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-13#1669415 thrd. ☝︎

asciilifeform: ^ see also.

asciilifeform: !#s viermi neadormiti

asciilifeform: sorta how in ru today 1e6 lolcat watchers for erry d00d with half a brain who builds pdp with own hands. whereas in 1990 , 1e6 builders of pdp and 0 lolcat. ☟︎

asciilifeform: when 'civilization' swallows island, they'll be watchin' 'netflix' like mircea_popescu's argentines.

asciilifeform: right nao in cuba, there's this wonder, orcs who machine toyota gearboxes to fit in 'lada', etc.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-16#1657172 << see also re other similar reservation. ☝︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: for all i know, already opened ☟︎

asciilifeform: inevitable, since fuhrer croaked, tho.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: imho pretty sad , actually : the (afaik) last 100% mcd-free reservation on hemisphere, totters.

asciilifeform: !Q later tell spyked that gutenberg tarball -- didja get a chance to auto-kill all of the header liquishit ? i'd prefer to mirror a flensed copy, the 50kB of 'this text copyright wikitards(tm)(r)' is eyesore ☟︎

asciilifeform: i went 'let's mirror', but loox like will take whole day

asciilifeform: spyked: that thing is on a 28kbaud modem or wat?! ☟︎

asciilifeform: so is zhirinovsky, lol

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: he's the size of a hippo ? why would this block work in the rack?!

asciilifeform: lolwaat

asciilifeform: hanbot: plox to lemme know if you require a moar permanent setup.

asciilifeform: hanbot: it's riding on a boot usb, has to be manually en-ip'd. BingoBoingo will reignite when wakes up.

asciilifeform: !!key opcode

asciilifeform: !#s from:opcode

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that makes sense.

asciilifeform: entirely troo. and in light of this, just about miraculous that any of the konsoomer shit can even be repurposed for actual work, at this pt

asciilifeform: and 99+% of pc bought to run spreadshit & 'hearts', no less

asciilifeform: this yes

asciilifeform: there's still a substantial 'hand-sewn' sector, where counts.

asciilifeform: than into rocket

asciilifeform: *mine

asciilifeform: 'pruning of middle' happens, in re konsoomer tech, but consider also that moar goes into garage, or even iraqi roadside mind,

asciilifeform: pretty sure that most elcaps ever baked, went into tv. but can see the pt.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fg dun exactly require cuntoo tho. runs a++ with, e.g., my msdos box. ( via 'max232' ttl to rs232 transformer )

asciilifeform: ( tho i do not currently know what dose will actually do it in )

asciilifeform: as it is, if yer launching yours into orbit, i recc pb foil over the cpld.

asciilifeform: if it were possible to source an antifuse fpga for the http://btcbase.org/patches/fg-genesis/tree/fg.v , thing would be trooly indestructible short of incinerator or train running over it

asciilifeform: ( caps -- strictly ceramic , with tantalum for the larger filter )

asciilifeform: helps that there aint much in the way of vlsi, or any electrolytic caps, possibly.

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: you ( & customers... ) may find it interesting, that even tho fg was not specifically built for radiation-hardness, the star of the http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=55 vivisections still runs to spec

asciilifeform: possibly only that many folx alive who give a serious shit re crypto. possibly i made it the wrong shade of red, fuck if i know.

asciilifeform: pretty modest ( tho asciilifeform was still surprised how large ! ) uptake for FG. asciilifeform doesn't even have a rigid handle on why, specifically.

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: still making a killing selling fg ?

asciilifeform: i dun know anyone who has buncha parts ~and~ Knows For Certain How Useful

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: are you still doing the 'warehouse of iron' thing these days ?

asciilifeform: ohai danielpbarron

asciilifeform: ( and possibly even the lightest, in re count of moving parts.. )