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asciilifeform: you can boot a pogo with it
asciilifeform: nubbins`: it's a kernel
asciilifeform: not even a very bad one.
asciilifeform: this is about how big a non-developer's linux ought to be
nubbins`: step at a time
asciilifeform: starting with a particular checkout of 'buildroot'
asciilifeform: (see thread for wtf a watchdog timer is and how i knew to look for it)
asciilifeform still trying to build a kernel without wdt
nubbins`: i just sent the liquidators a message, we'll see
asciilifeform: srsly this is a mighty long thread about a dead'n'gone item
danielpbarron: oh only 100 units, that's hardly a pallet
nubbins`: wonder if "national liquidation" selling em on amazon would cut a deal
danielpbarron: at 2 USD per, that's still a great deal
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 05:12:04; mircea_popescu: nubbins` can you store a pellet ?
asciilifeform: 'What is the cause of a corked wine? The culprit is usually one of two reasons, TCA, which is short for 2, 4,6 Trichloroanisole. TCA is a type of fungus that occurs naturally. Because TCA is a natural fungi present in the bark of the cork tree, it can be easily be taken into the cork.' << who wants to kill something after reading this
decimation: cabernet sauvignon (one of the bordeaux grapes) often has a tobacco flavor for instance
mircea_popescu: actually, finding a bad one's more challenging.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, nubbins`. it'd be a lot better if the tit knew it's caged.
asciilifeform: usaschwitz is a gigantic open-air debtor's prison already.
BingoBoingo: But the shavers strategy seems to be only notable in the sense he pulled off a mega fraud in a space which at the time was especially gullible and vulnerable to mega fraud.
BingoBoingo: Consider the example of a US bankruptcy case. You can cheaply and easily represent yourself if indigent, however you have to handle communications with all of the debtors, or... You scrape together enough to retain an attorney who has a process for handling that annoyance and also retain your sanity.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 02:40:21; PeterL: sounds like a great new sport, like skeet shooting, but the target can move in any direction, just need to make a drone that is either so cheap it's disposable or which can withstand shotgun hits
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it occurs to me, that shavers character is like out of a novel. first he gets a civil supoena that he doens't ignore. then he self represents. and doesn't do homework. then he loses the suit. civil suit. he loses it. then he pleads not guilty in criminal proceedings.
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 02:34:59; assbot: Michigan legislation would make using drones to hunt or harass hunters a crime ... ( http://bit.ly/1xAmhbS )
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2015#1071949 << the importnat part there is the 2nd clause. im sure buncha idiot nerds were becoming a pain.
asciilifeform: a 'rembrandt' here is simply an analogue bitcoin.
asciilifeform: that item is now a 'rembrandt' and can be authenticated ?
mircea_popescu: there's a very proper top. there's a good reason to pay 850k
mircea_popescu: there's a very proper middle, there's good reason to pay 80 rather than 15.
mircea_popescu: i broadly agree, but imo veblen-ness behaves strangely, as in : window. from about 100 to maybe 5 or 10k a bottle.
mircea_popescu: romania has (had ?) some exceptional wines at 5-10 dollars a bottle.
asciilifeform: presently testing a build with this crap removed with hot iron
BingoBoingo: http://www.bnd.com/2015/03/25/3731341/highland-man-turns-salvaged-copper.html << Complimentary lol "“My hands still have calluses from using No. 18 Weiss shear scissors to cut galvanized sheets to form gutters,” he said. “...You couldn’t afford a gutter today the way we made them.”
nubbins`: well til what a watchdog timer is
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, "ChangeTip BashCo" needs a comma?
PeterL: sounds like a great new sport, like skeet shooting, but the target can move in any direction, just need to make a drone that is either so cheap it's disposable or which can withstand shotgun hits
decimation: well, that's a fair point
decimation: why does this even need to be a law? isn't it obvious that if a flying object is 'harassing' you while you are armed, the proper answer is to shoot it?
PeterL: "The Michigan Department of Natural Resources hasn't received any complaints of hunters using a drone or getting harassed by a drone" << my representatives, hard at work solving problems they just invented
decimation: lol 'harass hunter' with a quadcopter
assbot: Michigan legislation would make using drones to hunt or harass hunters a crime ... ( http://bit.ly/1xAmhbS )
PeterL: http://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/25/house-passes-bill-make-hunting-harrassing-hunters-drone-crime/70441434/ << darn, I was looking forward to taking a deer with a quadcopter :( </sarcasm>
decimation: asciilifeform: if marvell are so keen on supporting 'open source' devel, why don't they support a proper kernel build?
decimation: re: wine > I took a class on winetasting in undergrad
asciilifeform: but this is pretty obviously a mishandled timer
asciilifeform: (i built it with rootfs cemented in kernel just as a quick test, to avoid having to flash the nand. i have kernel load from lan via tftp for tests. with rootfs and all contents, it is around 21M.)
asciilifeform: so not a panic
asciilifeform: watchdogs aren't evil, they are a sad necessity in the world of typical c programmers
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i don't know for a fact that this is happening here. just a hunch
asciilifeform: nubbins`: normally a register where you have to flip a bit every S seconds or power cycled
nubbins`: a timer!
asciilifeform: i suspect a watchdog timer
asciilifeform: though i think i have a handle on why
danielpbarron: last time i tried to build bitcoind i got this far -> util.h:650:8: error: 'uint32_t' does not name a type ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> asciilifeform: why no ssh in battlepogo? << Why SSH into a machine you have physical access to?
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ben_vulpes: y'r a dear
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: right after we can make even a z80 yes
asciilifeform: and could be manufactured for a few usd
nubbins`: scan a GMO apple
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> get stung by nutso us wasp o may gawd... << There's a burrowing and colonizing Vespid species endemic here. When they nest in the yard it is time for the serious chemicals. Eradicating a nest will scar that part of the yard for years.
asciilifeform: my thesis is that i've not a clue.
asciilifeform: not sure if the test was ever attempted in a 'serious' wine country
mircea_popescu: i'm not going to go as far as to say "date a french somellier chick that can actually tell you what you ate after you squirt her palate"
nubbins`: sommelier friend of mine has worked a few
mircea_popescu: there's no way they don't have that shit in dc, with all the dumb money floating about. take the girl out for a wine tasting show once
asciilifeform: what's in a wasp, anyway? formic acid ?
trinque: they drained quite a bit of death out of my asscheek and thigh
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> i've never been bitten by anything more exotic than fire ants << for one thing fire ants are more exotic than vipers in carpathians. for the other, i would bet a lot more painful. poor snake's drastically overhyped
nubbins`: once, while on vacation, my mom got bitten on the face a couple times by some sort of spider
mircea_popescu: this is about as sustainable as a tower of liquid piss in the shape of roosevelt's wheelchair.
mircea_popescu: plus drugs. hours out of the lives of a dozen + people, all supposedly skilled.
trinque got ass-bit by a brown recluse once, didn't bitch as much as the story
nubbins`: mircea_popescu she'll have a series of novels out this year
nubbins`: i'm sure they had at least a turkey baster
mod6: or have to hire a captain
mod6: jurov: lol, this is supposed be a "quick" setup and test. didn't think it'd be a three hour tour.
assbot: goosegoosegoosegoose comments on TIL that when a cockroach touches a human it runs to safety to clean itself ... ( http://bit.ly/1GoLqIc )
nubbins`: http://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/307ihi/til_that_when_a_cockroach_touches_a_human_it_runs/cpq3jky?context=3
nubbins`: because changing a config setting in a peripheral piece of software is a fork
mircea_popescu: it's a wonder they find the fridge 5 times a week
nubbins`: 'cause there was totally a hard fork duod.
nubbins`: i didn't know you were a foodie
nubbins`: <nubbins`> anyway, only counting 0.8.x and above, that's like giving a population count of every country in the world, but excluding everyone under 5 feet tall.
mike_c: mircea_popescu: maybe not. could be a much dumber reason. "It's all one node just with 600 addresses. This is what happens when you fucking pay people to sybil attack the network."
assbot: Converting a VirtualBox VM to an EC2 AMI | Niftiest Software ... ( http://bit.ly/1GoGK53 )
trinque: https://www.niftiestsoftware.com/2011/09/24/converting-a-virtualbox-vm-to-an-ec2-ami/ << also possible
mod6: guess i'll give it a whirl. wth.
mod6: can anyone direct me to a installable gentoo iso for x86_32
mod6: somehow i dl'd a live cd? o.O
trinque: log shows a connect attempt every 1-2sec until Mar 25 16:33:40 PST
jfdjdjdjdjrejeii: Yeah im a troll whatever
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who was that dude << no idea, my best hypothesis is that he isn't alive at all but a script
asciilifeform: it is also a bozo who connects from jfdjdjdjdjrejeii's slash24
jfdjdjdjdjrejeii: Meowmix is a cat food
mircea_popescu: correlation of pseudorandom variables is a wonderfuil thing
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (me last year, waiting for cab with dude in timisoara. cab kinda late. me : "check it out, i'ma light a cigarette and by the magical magic of smoking, it'll show up immediately. << Most well known phenomenon associated with tobacco use
asciilifeform: (just as much as the cig is a cab-summoner!)
mircea_popescu: (me last year, waiting for cab with dude in timisoara. cab kinda late. me : "check it out, i'ma light a cigarette and by the magical magic of smoking, it'll show up immediately.