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ben_vulpes: never hurts to apply blaster before hacksaw
asciilifeform: dunno, my tank's lever nut was a veritable antikythera, wholly solid ball of rust.
ben_vulpes: as in "child, the might blaster is for lubricating and unfreezing bolts, not eating"
asciilifeform: 'tis indeed the 'gentoo of toilet valve'.
asciilifeform: or you will get the dreaded double-gurgle
asciilifeform: be aware, you ~will~ have to calibrate the float.
ben_vulpes: although i have like three cans of the mighty blaster to get through
asciilifeform: oh and : bring a hacksaw, often ancient flush lever has the nut rusted solid, you will not be able to turn it out, gotta slice through the 'antikythera'
ben_vulpes: i feel like mircea_popescu with the washing machine
asciilifeform: ( it has this flexible throat thing so as to fit every possible tank arse )
asciilifeform: be sure to lather the rubber throat with heavy plumber's grease when you put the thing in, or it'll eventually leak.
asciilifeform: ok, found mine, it's the FLT231T
asciilifeform: ( though mine has not so many parts )
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: nope, that looks like a chain valve
ben_vulpes: i'm just paging through bezosmart
asciilifeform: i have nfi who makes these where ben_vulpes lives
ben_vulpes: this is the "400 cr"?
asciilifeform: the neatest imho aspect is that it works IN REVERSE also
asciilifeform: 0 things to tangle inside tank.
asciilifeform: and new flush knob to go with it, resembles bicycle brake
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i install these everywhere i move into
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: this thing attaches to the flush actuator?
ben_vulpes: not the float
mircea_popescu: eh, get better suppliers. the chinese only sell the good shit to people who can curse in 4 syllables.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: problem child is the arm/chain assembly
asciilifeform: 'the territory is better than the map, but it won't fit in your glove compartment'
asciilifeform: 3) cheap (couplea hundy usd) tab-welders are shite
asciilifeform: in mostly unrelated lulz, asciilifeform found that 1) most recent manufacture dates of batteries sold for classic thinkpads are all ~2013 2) mircea_popescu was unfortunately wrong, chinese LiIon cells have ~not~ improved, they have cheapened further still, expected useful life of a battery is ~year (less, with heavy use)
hanbot: sure, i'll snap one next i'm by there
asciilifeform: hanbot: this is still lulzy given as i was quite certain that all foreign rat shacks used the brand 'tandy' and vanished in late '80s
asciilifeform: these are still alive, but 1) get 0 new inventory, at least not from the old mothership 2) will be asked to change their name, if/when somebody buys the old one
mircea_popescu: most us corps sell their name to local operators in the third world where the peons still believe us > crap.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 20:48 asciilifeform: not only this: the very same ratshack actually died once (i went to the same liquidation sales, bought the furniture, etc) and then somehow came BACK from the grave, (no prizes for guessing how -- printolade) undead, to live for another 3y
hanbot: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657550 << searching (to no avail!) for a non-es keyboard the other day, i ran into, and did a double-take of, a radio shack here in cr. i had no idea they'd even squeaked by. no liquidation here (yet?). ☝︎
mircea_popescu: looks more like yet another attempt at the "team" scam. see the pix.
mod6: just pull up and drop anchor on their front lawn.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if this is a latrine you go to every day, put a chainless ballcock in it and be done with it
mircea_popescu: it's not so surprising that people who can't fix toilet buy intel chips. "Everyone else does!!1"
asciilifeform read the selfappendectomy d00d's adventures with envious eye
mircea_popescu: if the toilet worked it wouldn't need fixing!
mircea_popescu: or w/e, let's phrase it in ourdemocracy terms, "you don't need computers if you did nothing wrong" or however it went.
asciilifeform: ('the answer lies in the sewers' !! )
asciilifeform: by same logic price of toilet may very well be imbecility
a111: Logged on 2017-05-20 19:16 mircea_popescu: Framedragger come to think about it, the logic actually follows. nature is red in tooth and claw. the hysteria of "removing the red from nature's tooth and claw", usually sold by the "our democracy" lunatics as "rule of law" or equivalent, directly runs all the way to "male penis is not reproductive organ but social construct".
mircea_popescu: what, you thought http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-20#1659774 was a joke ? it was no fucking joke. the price of ipads is imbecility. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: what fucking fix. they can't open it anymore than they can fuck the woman on the deserted island. "nobody to introduce us!!1" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but as it is, the problem'd be that their mental object for a toilet does NOT EVEN FUCKING HAVE THE OPENABLE PROPERTY.
mircea_popescu: prior to modernity, one could also not easily picture adult man, with two legs, who could not leave the fucking room.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you ever seen that great bunuel film, "the exterminating angel" ?
asciilifeform: on other hand, i've never owned an entire goat, so cannot claim to be first class goat cook.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform can't easily picture an adult man , with two hands, who could not fix toilet
phf: they totally would, like, you know, if they had to!
shinohai: Simple, we use our feces to fertilize garden and therefore need no toilets!
ben_vulpes: it's not just that nobody bothers to fix the toilets, it's that they literally /cannot/, would rather prattle on at city council about implementing new taxes to pay for urban community gardens to feed the poor kale or what the fuck ever eudaly wants to wank off to this week
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform could. i have this magic want which takes the "would" away.
ben_vulpes: yeah which is its own indictment of the place
mircea_popescu: in fairness i never met a 20something usian who could fix a toilet.
ben_vulpes: failure to maintain capital equipment, failure to give a shit about basic amenities you know working...
ben_vulpes: it is a very /annoying/ and /present/ tell of how far this civilization has fallen.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes why are you so preoccupied with toilets, anyway
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: !~later tell BingoBoingo http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/0NnWt/?raw=true
trinque: m'yeah, I always thought "computer music" was an invitation for *more* creative beat
Framedragger: (here's a random good song with related title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QHj0VBCP54)
ben_vulpes: vault is brickly aesthetic and tittilating
trinque: y'all shooting porn in there now? artsy
ben_vulpes: don't forget the pr0n
ben_vulpes: miserable pile of bricks in which i rent cubic feet for parking of butt while toiling in the mines
asciilifeform: where was this, ben_vulpes
ben_vulpes: the pass-ag war of the toilets
ben_vulpes: someone broke the toilet i fixed
Framedragger: that's so crazy, literally ~5h ago i visited http://www.btcalpha.com/blog/2014/panacea-opens-the-books/ through some link on trilema or somewhere
asciilifeform: aaaha, esp. the not-being-frozen-in-time aspect
shinohai: I actually like trinque 's wot viewer better tho
shinohai makes trumpet noises with cheeks ...
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/s-a-furat-mireasa/ << Trilema - S-a furat mireasa
asciilifeform: entirely same thing, but crunches 32b (on 64b box) at a time, rather than 1
a111: Logged on 2017-05-23 18:37 asciilifeform: anyway this is substantially faster than ancient egyptian mul,
asciilifeform: after karatsubaization, this oughta become an actually manageable figure.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-19#1659228 turns into 20.5s. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-19#1659223 turns into 0.35 s ☝︎
asciilifeform: anyway this is substantially faster than ancient egyptian mul, ☟︎
asciilifeform: and take upper half of THAT, as carry.
asciilifeform: gotta split X and Y into half-words, and multiply a half-word at a time, into a word-sized space
asciilifeform: so to get X * Y -> product, carry
asciilifeform: halfword, rather than word, at a time, because of the idiocy of compilers, which LOSE the carry flag (see last 4 or so threads re subj)
asciilifeform: compared performance of 'kindergarten' multiplier ( halfword at a time, uses machine's MUL instr. which apparently IS constant-time on x86 (but NOT on arm! would need test routine at warmup to establish if can use MUL ) )
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/AF8C6925459B8C7F30E8CDBFCBE637E885CDF9DB48FF7D06DCB9DE2D86DCEDA8 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1673...4829 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '200.105.176.186 (ssh-rsa key from 200.105.176.186 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (static-200-105-176-186.acelerate.net. BO L)
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/AF8C6925459B8C7F30E8CDBFCBE637E885CDF9DB48FF7D06DCB9DE2D86DCEDA8 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1567...6787 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '200.105.176.186 (ssh-rsa key from 200.105.176.186 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (static-200-105-176-186.acelerate.net. BO L)
asciilifeform: Framedragger: the 'our code in github' link goes nowhere
Framedragger: heh they describe the key negotiation etc in sorta-detail on their website, which is probably *a first* https://www.connect.im/faqs?faq_category_id=5 i mean, don't use this, but it's refreshing to see this (in broken english no less lol)
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/130677BB02BE2C83C98B0C3E1B00C45BB13A2FFF7FA624C2B2D4C7FCB3D115C3 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1702...6917 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '209.54.27.123 (ssh-rsa key from 209.54.27.123 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (209.54.27.123.threeriver.net. US NE)
deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/130677BB02BE2C83C98B0C3E1B00C45BB13A2FFF7FA624C2B2D4C7FCB3D115C3 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1433...1037 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '209.54.27.123 (ssh-rsa key from 209.54.27.123 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (209.54.27.123.threeriver.net. US NE)
shinohai: Aha! That was it
a111: Logged on 2017-03-05 18:20 BingoBoingo: shinohai: Have you considered starting a something to get some editorial experience? Perhaps you can be the publisher of "The Most Serene Republic's Journal Of Gardening And Whoreticulture"?
asciilifeform: lol, even tor used rsa
mircea_popescu: project seems well abandoned though.
mircea_popescu: contact id based on pubkey, i have nfi why they think it dun leak metadata ; also no idea why they bundled tor in it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, their contact scheme (summarized/cleanned up : cookie + pubkey + signature with same pubkey) is not terrible. uses rsa, which is a +.
mircea_popescu: you're terrible.