asciilifeform: and no, not whole state

asciilifeform: as on 'univac'

asciilifeform: to get a close approximation of one working unit

asciilifeform: instead, 'deadbugging' several duds over one another

asciilifeform: the ibm pc, recall, was that abomination where they didn't even bother to use dram chips that passed qa

asciilifeform: and 'winners', naturally, win

asciilifeform: who ~knew~ that they were winners as soon as they popped out of the womb

asciilifeform: it was made by folks who did not have any reason whatsoever to give a fuck re: quality or cost.

asciilifeform: the thing was, in every respect, a 'soviet' production in the stereotypical western sense of the word

asciilifeform: add a zero or so for modern usd.

asciilifeform: http://www.oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.html << prices

asciilifeform: and secretary (who did the job 10x better, but...)

asciilifeform: but with typewriter.

asciilifeform: wasn't competing with s/360

asciilifeform: so it did not matter that it was a stinking pile of shit

asciilifeform: but bezzle-annointed, yes

asciilifeform: either.

asciilifeform: no, WAS NOT CHEAP

asciilifeform: and consider also that, of all the toy computers, the one with the singularly worst design in every conceivable way, won.

asciilifeform: that doesn't reduce to 'xxxx chip'

asciilifeform: but overall good design

asciilifeform: it was not an era of elusive 'sauces'

asciilifeform: man does not live by cpu alone !

asciilifeform: not the cpu

asciilifeform: anyway, the book is about the i/o chip

asciilifeform: the other giant of the '80s

asciilifeform: z80

asciilifeform: it is a priceless tour of 1980s chip design, among other things

asciilifeform has been greatly enjoying http://www.zxdesign.info/book

asciilifeform: incidentally,

asciilifeform: can use sd card, with a little soldering

asciilifeform: decimation: if that's all you want, get a 'sinclair'

asciilifeform: and your partner behind enemy lines asks same, and gets same answer.

asciilifeform: so can 'ask' the glass a 64-bit integer, and get another

asciilifeform: that can be used as a one-time pad

asciilifeform: the reason why 'physical function' is that it ought to be precisely a ~function~

asciilifeform: once 'distilled to bits', that'd be your key

asciilifeform: decimation: what is the point of it

asciilifeform: very often, folks forget just how much analogue strange there is in the world, that is kept (mostly) out of their digital computer

asciilifeform: (see mircea_popescu's old 'dragonfly' article based on my conf-II chat)

asciilifeform: or if different room

asciilifeform: just don't be surprised when it stops working when it is wet/cold/hot in the room

asciilifeform: then sure

asciilifeform: break a glass rod.

asciilifeform: (goes without saying that it is only good for symmetric crypto)

asciilifeform: but it doesn't do any good unless there are 2 of'em (at minimum)

asciilifeform: the 'crushed glass secret key' was picked up by academitards as 'physically unclonable function'

asciilifeform: decimation: look into why analogue computer went away.

asciilifeform: decimation: crosstalk and rf

asciilifeform: obligatory >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-03-2014#552444 ☝︎

asciilifeform: world's biggest unsurprise. of what is there most in a city? shit

asciilifeform: ^ was big business esp. in the brief time when piss was boiled for nitrate

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usually in china they put it through a pig first. but yes.

asciilifeform: (there is ~some~ nutritious matter in the earth)

asciilifeform: 'dirt cookie' was a favourite in chinese cultural revolution

asciilifeform: in the '90s

asciilifeform: actually, iirc washpost huffed it

asciilifeform: decimation: i suppose they haven't any accordions to boil

asciilifeform: (they will, from lack of what else, eventually)

asciilifeform: yes. and removed when they start to eat the living flesh

asciilifeform: the only shred of logic in there is that the maggots sometimes do feast on living flesh

asciilifeform: but not from flies.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'there is no resisting ants and flies, giraffe fell, elephant fell'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-07-2015#1215885 ☝︎

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: what do we need the extra people post-1900 for anyway

asciilifeform: wake me up when they reach 1900 level and still drop

asciilifeform: like real men.

asciilifeform: resists, to the bitter end.

asciilifeform: jurov: japan.

asciilifeform: Ze Supernoud Lifestyle

asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: decimation: they envy sweden its great mosques

asciilifeform: (in more recent times, the 'loot' is in the form of bait, handed out monthly at welfare office)

asciilifeform: when there is what to loot..

asciilifeform: if you want things that are ultimately doing you in in double time, and aren't even particularly fun - that is it

asciilifeform: jurov: it is the very meaning of the word 'addiction' as commonly used. (no one speaks of being 'addicted' to air, sunlight, etc)

asciilifeform: (they are anyway, but slowly)

asciilifeform: jurov: warm house is addictive. or whole 'west' circus would voluntarily rebuild afganistan at home

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=28-07-2015#1214974 << see also ☝︎

asciilifeform: (or get into the jail, where, approximately, same)

asciilifeform: where he can work 14 hour days for a flat with six of his kind

asciilifeform: to, say, canada, or usa.

asciilifeform: he will probably try to make his way 'moar west'

asciilifeform: not even being planted nose-first into the genuine pile of shit, has any curative effect

asciilifeform: back to the earlier observation, the attachment orcs have to the myth of 'the west' is a truly religious affair

asciilifeform: at least where i live.

asciilifeform: must have been filmed a while ago, these figures would probably have an extra trailing zero today

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: very few orcs have the brains to even consider this formula

asciilifeform: ~i don't give a fuck~ what you're paid, how much of it do you get to ~keep~, and how much time do you get to sit in the warm house and drink tea and not think of work

asciilifeform: decimation: this and precisely this, is why i laugh at people who discuss compensation in terms of money

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see also the idiocy of 'skeumorphism'

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: respecifying email as null << win

asciilifeform: ab initio.

asciilifeform: 'the real computer' was and is programmed in asm ab initio - yes, from entirely empty space; for every task.

asciilifeform: jurov: don't confuse the retardation of unix&descendants for 'the real computer'

asciilifeform: !s flashlight crash

asciilifeform: and you can tell from a distance when a sector of civilization has been consumed by the cancer