asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: 'and leaving their interesting and activities oriented towards extramarital dating exposed.' << ?

asciilifeform: unfortunately not

asciilifeform will not encourage others to play it

asciilifeform does not play whackamole

asciilifeform: wai wat

asciilifeform: peine forte et dure !!

asciilifeform: the chick who told me about the vacuum bed was into it as a straight bdsm thing iirc

asciilifeform: not everything oughta be mechanized

asciilifeform: kinda reminds me of the 'why not connect air compressor to the tuba' concept

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this apparatus works, i was told, like the ubiquitous kitchen vacuum sealer machine. but with an airhole. it is popular where i live, i was told.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: working how? single-stepping the thing ?

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: outproduce ?

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://xkcd.com/1553

asciilifeform: 195.211.154.159:8333

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: ( danielpbarron ? )

asciilifeform: somebody found a bug in 'blkcut' but did not follow up re: replicating ☟︎

asciilifeform: new recordz every day.

asciilifeform: in other nyooz, 69 active connections on s.nsa's node.

asciilifeform: i thought everybody knew, at this point, that one cannot expect to end up with same blkxxxx at all times, on account of forklets.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, jurov, mircea_popescu, et al: found the test pads on that 'miracast' thing. they were, unsurprisingly, under the sticker.

asciilifeform: (as was with 'chromecast')

asciilifeform: on account of them being 'here today, gone tomorrow'

asciilifeform: but i hate to rely on these

asciilifeform: there may or may not be a public root exploit for these

asciilifeform: got only the familiar soic8 that everyone has

asciilifeform: can read out / rewrite the rom if i had a soic16 crocodile (i presently lack one)

asciilifeform: radio (front), eeprom and vreg (back) - conventional

asciilifeform: cpu and ram were both bga

asciilifeform: (did not find such)

asciilifeform: i cut it open in search of an obvious test point for uart

asciilifeform: the thing works

asciilifeform: decimation: in this case it was on account of the 802.11 thing ('realtek') being a separate pcb

asciilifeform: (though his unit is not entirely the same)

asciilifeform: better pics than mine: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?s=64d51233e96e8197f7ed78e398986916&attachmentid=2904114&d=1408479756 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?s=64d51233e96e8197f7ed78e398986916&attachmentid=2904115&d=1408479756

asciilifeform: i found it interesting how the 802.11 module is anchored with just 6 solder balls - wonder what the protocol is

asciilifeform: (if you have one of these, and it is not obvious how to open it - use a very sharp knife.)

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, jurov, mircea_popescu, et al: http://imgur.com/a/ED5Nl

asciilifeform: but curable!

asciilifeform: srsly, it is a bad habit imho

asciilifeform: wipe arse too ?

asciilifeform: i don't get this thing were folks expect others to chew for them

asciilifeform: trinque: if you don't like this, can make own indices

asciilifeform: can watch continents drift.

asciilifeform: it is measured in years, yes

asciilifeform: https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/pobble.html << obligatory!

asciilifeform: sop

asciilifeform: if you have something else - you do not have the answer.

asciilifeform: the answer is ALWAYS, without exception, fits-in-head+does-not-crash+operates-correctly.

asciilifeform: if it can be done manually, economically, i would not be using a fucking computer !

asciilifeform: this is ludicrous.

asciilifeform: phf: go reconstruct blockchain manually.

asciilifeform: phf: 'write-only log' is what, paper tape ?

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: aha, ffi

asciilifeform: at least, not without doing ffi

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i have never succeeded in crashing sbcl, for instance

asciilifeform: (it is still standing)

asciilifeform: i'm a terrible cook. but have never 'crashed' my kitchen yet

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if your lisp crashes, something is very very wrong in your house

asciilifeform: if your working ram is 1) at least as big as your data set 2) connected to own nuke reactor, never loses power - then, great.

asciilifeform: 'save-lisp-and-die'

asciilifeform: decimation: hardware can also make certain operations impractically unreliable (e.g., persistence across power toggles) or impractically slow (e.g., all-pointers-are-typed-pointers as on lispm will never happen on x86)

asciilifeform: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3103356827666810@naggum.no.html << obligatory re: cpp

asciilifeform: like a colt '45 works

asciilifeform: like the brooklyn bridge works

asciilifeform: i was speaking of ~actually fucking works~

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: 'for some value of the word' - you can go do, on microshit, in visual basic, sure.

asciilifeform: it cannot.

asciilifeform: as i did in 2009.

asciilifeform: after he learns that he doesn't, he will probably come to believe that it can be emulated on hardware which almost works.

asciilifeform: he does not.

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel, for instance, probably believes that he has 'hardware that works.' just as i did, in 2008

asciilifeform: otherwise - could write it.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: because you haven't hardware that works.

asciilifeform: ~retch~

asciilifeform: didn't ben_vulpes get hold of an actual computer at some point recently ?

asciilifeform: he takes the hardware as a given

asciilifeform: (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: 'if yer so smart why aitcha rich'

asciilifeform: naggum had a thing re: 'job-creating systems'

asciilifeform: which is to say, in this case, whether he has already had the flash of realization that the shit he is working with sucks because of 'anthropic principle' - that is, if it weren't a crock of shit, he would not have his job...

asciilifeform: i can usually tell from talking to a fella who programs - for three minutes - whether he's 'seen the elephant'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lemme guess, you're stuck maintaining one of those things ?

asciilifeform: like 'mongo'

asciilifeform: and it is also an interesting case study: what kinds of brokenness produce these waves of 'kids who tried their best' (tm)

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: somebody buy gabriel_laddel a new modem ?

asciilifeform: on the real machine, you could actually execute the examples in the docs browser.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/smbxman.jpg << all but the blue (interlisp, xerox) and orange ('chinanual', for the original mit lisp mach)

asciilifeform: gave me his 'alpha', too

asciilifeform: by a phriend.

asciilifeform: was given to me, for phree, even

asciilifeform: it takes up most of a shelf

asciilifeform: i have the paper

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: they were, iirc, the first hyperlinked manual (one was expected to read them on the machine - but it came with a paper set!)

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the symbolics books are a marvel of writing.

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: gives you a pass, and one for the woman