asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-06#1893257 << incidentally, must add that i do ~not~ recommend this box , unless yer experimenting with the linked display thing; it takes good chunk of hour to get disk in/out of it on acct of braindamaged mechanical design of chassis☝︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: let's use ( unless mircea_popescu specifically prefers the usb stick for somereason )
asciilifeform: i dun have a magical recipe for 'program to make sense'. approached problem by consciously avoiding all the various 'perlisms' knew of that typically prevent it; then wrote proggy with ~50% comment mass by weight ( but who can guarantee that they suffice ? ) , + the proofs/articles.
asciilifeform: ( and asciilifeform is the last who could answer definitively the q of whether succeeded to 'program to make sense', only the readers can answer it )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i cant speak for eucrypt, but ffa is at least as much experiment in 'can program be written to make sense?' as it is arithm lib
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall how microshit released ~0 useful docs, and folx like norton made megabux sellin' boox
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dos sores , surprisingly, was moar or less sane item (considering that microshit stole it)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ye olde 'doom' , complete with 32bit emm thingie, weighed, what, 2,3mb
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they dun even like to mention that typical gnuturd is 80-90% autoconfolade by mass
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're certain you won't need fast disk of >1mo of operation, we can feed you one of the still-working retired rk drives
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: x- was when freshly chinesated but the contents not yet changed.
asciilifeform: ( and the last to work w/ linuxbios, if one inclined to experiment with same)
asciilifeform: it was pretty much the last intel chipset on lappy which linuxed without pile of ??? breakages afaik.
asciilifeform: there were 9000 boxen with that chipset, '09-10
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for that matter, the starvation-cheap machine in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2993 , 'samsung n150', same chipset as x60 . cost me exactly fiddybux on fleamarkets.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc t40 was the last 32bit pentium stinkpad
asciilifeform: (for which asciilifeform posted patched bios, and on which baked the trimmed gentoo which then trinque matured into cuntoo etc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: e.g. the well-known x60
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when hanbot goes to do this exercise, ping BingoBoingo so he can do his duty in the cage cycling mains for the unit if necessary
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sorta the point of nailing down cuntoo etc. to avoid the quite unpleasant 'hrm i need a box, lemme visit junkyard and see if they have pieces of old lada'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: plox to also unhook kvm from uy1 ( which is running without issue continuously since i started watching )
asciilifeform: it's a starvation-bare gentoo, suffices for maintenance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's an ancient gentoo boot stick baked by ben_vulpes kept on hand for such occasions.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: or lemme know if you need help with this.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: when you fill this order, plox to bring up that box with a usb boot stick and give it ip, so hanbot doesn't have to use the quite unpleasant kvm.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a # of 1b ssd in stock. BingoBoingo plox to give mircea_popescu a quote for same.
asciilifeform: i dun recall trinque giving estimate of min disk req'd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what'll you need in re disk ? ( that box is a cold spare and diskless atm )
asciilifeform: '141.7 USD/mo, billed in BTC at the beginning of every month.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: far as i'm concerned, walking bodies who can't languages into a higher maffs classroom is == lunacy to walking in ones who never learned arithmetic
asciilifeform: ameripharma is just tip of the iceberg.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: correct, approx at the time they started optimizing for neutron yield
asciilifeform: diana_coman: can barf at the communist kid b00kz, but seems to me that even there result is considerably closer to human and farther from bonsaikitten of disney princess etc.
asciilifeform: except that i dun think anywhere in civilized world keeps the insane in anyffin resembling the conditions.
asciilifeform: erry time asciilifeform gets a chance to walk out, going back feels rather like back to insane asylum.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu at one pt walked around in usa for coupla ~yrs~ and then noticed and took the first plane out and never set foot again
asciilifeform: errything is subtly poison. and not merely the air, water, food ( these -- so obv. that even the localtards understand, generally ) -- but the ~thought~
asciilifeform: nuffin here is healthy or whole, it is like living on those tomatoes they grow in chernobyl exclusion zone☟︎
