asciilifeform: 'this problem will not be solved for you personally, pray that your grandchildren get to live like people' <--> 'but i don't want to have children, i want to live like people ~myself~'☟︎
asciilifeform: actually the logic is there, even if mircea_popescu does not see it.
asciilifeform: entirely similar. schmuck: 'i have a problem.' commander: slides pistol with one round across the table
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu will be delighted to learn that we already had this algo. it was called 'the last bullet health, life, and retirement pension co.'
asciilifeform: hey all the co2 needs is to sit in the sun...
asciilifeform: but let's pretend grandfather had lived in usa. there, folks paid for five-room house what today a schmuck pays for a car. (sums converted per any algo you like)
asciilifeform: grandfather traded; i - given half a chance - will trade right fucking back.
asciilifeform: nobody's showing up with time machine and asking 'wanne be peano?'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-10-2015#1301570 << not to mention the concentrated, unadulterated retardation of the original concept of hero as imagined by monkey - that is, a hypetrophied monkey who rescues, for no apparent reason, his fellows, from their own idiocy☝︎
asciilifeform: the EPROMs were placed flat, so were being irradiated at an angle to the optimum angle. However, this was in New Zealand which has a higher UV level than most other countries. [If you expose unprotected skin to say 2 to 4 hours full sun here in midsummer you can expect extremely severe and painful burns with the possible need for medical treatmemnt.] One hour will often leave you sore and sorry the next day.'
asciilifeform: 'In the late 1970s we found that on a reasonably sunny day a batch of "windowed" EPROMs exposed to sunlight for a day on a sunny windowsill through glass with the EPROM horizontal would invariably erase reliably. We probably had some idea of how little time it took but it was no so long ago that such fine detail escapes me. Note that the erasing was with light passing through standard window glass (a reasonable UV filter), and
asciilifeform: if you feel like doing it as an exercise, do it. if not, use one of the published items. (unlike what is customary in the barbarian world, cl libraries generally... work)
asciilifeform: the wrapper is what you'd end up writing anyway
