asciilifeform: which is concerned almost entirely with drilling fuckholes in sacks of potatoes and calling it harem-building.
asciilifeform: novena represents in my mind everything that is most loathesome re: the so-called 'maker' subculture.
asciilifeform: 'only a terrorist would demand the full docs for the fpga or a full netlist for the arm!'
asciilifeform: i can almost hear the reply of the author and his fans, 'what have you created, useless eater?!', 'this ~is~ what the word open now means!', etc
asciilifeform: 'novena' is almost a textbook case of slimeball delusionist attempts to nudge the definition of 'open'
asciilifeform: not even to mention the fact that calling it a 'laptop' is like calling a sack of potatoes with a fuckhole drilled therein a 'woman'...
asciilifeform: well, the only part that isn't 'from textbook', at the very least.
asciilifeform: 'You can’t encrypt, pack, sign, split, or hash transistors. There are no magic numbers, except for those that you find in the back of a physics textbook.' << the one good part in huang's slide show
asciilifeform: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/bulldozer.html << 'This miniature rendition of a bulldozer appears on a NMOS digital chip designed in 1980 for Caterpillar by Synertek for use in their heavy equipment Electronic Monitoring Systems. The integrated circuit is still used in many models of Caterpillar construction equipment, including bulldozers. We suspect that the bulldozer is busy clearing space on the chip for addit
asciilifeform suspects that in the vast majority of cases, getting the rom contents via humint is cheaper
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2015#1311697 << almost forgot to point out: this generally won't read a modern rom, certainly not a 16nm one that was built by folks who didn't want it read. you need an ion beam machine and much sweat, to strip away the layers.☝︎
asciilifeform: so what if paycheque is given to the schmuck for ten minutes 'to keep it warm' and then goes right back. at least he wasn't beat up in grade school !
asciilifeform: (it was really engineered to distract the easily-distracted from their entirely genuine serfdom, e.g., rent existing)
asciilifeform: nobody but thoroughbred tards ever bought into the 'end to oppression' claptrap
asciilifeform: per the not-merely-finger-tricks definition of the word.
asciilifeform: how many people ~understand~ ANYTHING AT ALL ?
asciilifeform: imitive to work.' << this IS what school IS.
asciilifeform: 'The problem is that as long as he completed the worksheet, you wouldn't know there was a problem with doing math until it was way too late. If the kid is clever in other ways-- say, fast at finger counting-- he could easily convey the impression that he understands how to add 2 digit numbers, and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too pr
asciilifeform: aaand then we get to where they put modern systemdized linux on the thing, etc.
asciilifeform: 'Another advantage was Freescale’s policy of distributing a very detailed reference manual covering most of the chip’s real estate without requiring a nondisclosure agreement.' >> 'most' ?!
