asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, mod6, ben_vulpes, et al: i just don't get this 'let's use same name & versions as the fools did' thing. when we build martian city, will we name it 'washington' or 'pyongyang' ?! why?
asciilifeform: would have to obtain sockets. and clean +100 dc..
asciilifeform has a supply of vacuum valves, scavenged from ancient tv sets, has contemplated building amp. but this will happen - if happens - after the war.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: is that a vacuum valve amp ?
asciilifeform: i'm told that in usa folks in prison get headphones. and now i imagine i know what kind.
asciilifeform: even the earpads on the 'superlux' feel terrible - no sweat pores; rather like a public bus seat
asciilifeform: everyone loves to piss on that vendor but who, precisely, else, makes usable headphone.
asciilifeform: 'face like Mark Zuckerberg that you just want to punch for no reason' << we call this 'морда просит кирпича' (mug that begs for a brick)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'iphone' sounds similar
asciilifeform: ;;later tell kakobrekla those headphones suck donkey ballz. sound like russian telephone.
asciilifeform: everyone forgets the gruntwork, remembers the joy, aha
asciilifeform: (barrel shifter, named for the characteristic physical shape of the circuit on the die, allows shifting n bits in one clock cycle)
asciilifeform: and iirc had ordinary, not barrel, shifter
asciilifeform: mats: this is a pretty major result, imho. because the cpld products haven't changed in nearly a decade, and their internal structure is extremely regular (no special-purpose blocks)
asciilifeform discovered, during unrelated research, that xilinx's 'coolrunner' cpld series - a very simple programmable logic gizmo with very homogeneous/regular physical structure - can hold a simple risc cpu...
