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asciilifeform: trinque: if g_l is anything to go by -- it certainly does
shinohai: You don't stop giving the whores junk ......
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 18:19 asciilifeform: 'packing', and brute labour of whatever other kind, also can have sensation of 'inch away', read the tales of athletes in training, alpinists, pilots.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-01#1575700 << thread ☝︎
trinque: point was that it detunes the good-idea-inator badly
BingoBoingo: Anyways, after physical dependence is established for any drug, cessastion of drug leads to feelings of exhaustion and illness.
asciilifeform: who the fuck lets prisoner decide direction ?
trinque: might give you the will to march, but all directions seem equally great ideas
trinque: this is the kind of thing of which you're disabused after you reach your personal tolerance of bros telling you their great business idea
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc ww2 germany experimented with similarly cocainizing prisoners, for endurance, but came to 0, war ended
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> for that particular value of worx. << The second best treatment for addiction disorders is drugs of abuse
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform soviets similarily denied afghani whatever, then permitted again. this suggests - empire doesn't honestly gas.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> seems as if -- there could easily be. << Probably low hanging fruit
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> compress as-needed, blow -- as-needed. << Thinking on it, AC may be the one application where CVT transmission makes sense
BingoBoingo: <mod6> she's been mainly 100% delirious. but in a moment of slurred-opiate semi-clarity, she asked me "hows BingoBoingo?" << I am doing well, celebrate 18 months of continuous sobriety later this month.
asciilifeform: ( some modern folx -- gabriel_laddel ?? -- continue this fine tradition even today... )
asciilifeform: ( pretty sure we had this thread. )
asciilifeform: for that particular value of worx.
asciilifeform: the spanish first denied the indians they were working to death, their coca, then permitted again. this suggests that coca -- works.
asciilifeform: nobody ~forces~ idiot to snort it.
asciilifeform: if people dosed aspirin the way they dosed cocaine, they would decide that it, too, is useless.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i am not proposing an alternative for that function. doctor isn't in the line of proposing replacement for cocaine, and from the "i wanna feel good" perspective the whole pharmacopoea is a waste of space. << This is why CIA popularized freebase salt of cocaine
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> cocaine is the eminent example. it FEELS like it does things to you. it does not therefore HELP. << The problems with cocaine hcl powder is that in little time even that feeling goes that and you are left with only feeling of wanting moar cocaine
asciilifeform: seems as if -- there could easily be.
asciilifeform: is there such a thing as a variable-ratio compressor ?
asciilifeform: you can't even ~get~ a peltier in anything like the size you would want for a room ac. would need hundred of'em.
asciilifeform: ( if all ac used peltier junction, this would be quite trivial. unfortunately peltier is not actually +ev in comparison with mechanical compressor. )
asciilifeform: as determined by the actual leakage of the room walls.
asciilifeform: the starting/stopping of the compressor and the blower is also massive waste of energy.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: i always wished there were such a thing as an ac with a throttle << Not throttle, needs adjustable clutch
danielpbarron: mod6, i think trinque is working on it
shinohai: I'm still hopeful I'll find something that'll run on that Dell I salvaged a few weeks ago.
shinohai: If the shitty, 4 year old hardware I run my node hasn't burnt down the house yet I'm highly optimistic for you mod6 :D
mod6: ben_vulpes: so if i have a `std::map<ktype, std::vector<vtype>> stuffMap`, is it legal to say `stuffMap[k].push_back(newV)` << should be fine as long as newV is of vtype.
mod6: Ok, thanks for the update.
TomServo: mod6: Sorry, nothing to report as yet. Node is still running, wedged, and untouched. Haven't had time to delve any deeper.
mod6: TomServo: any update on the issues you ran into?
mod6: danielpbarron: hey, did you ever figure out whatever with your openbsd deed you were trying to do?
mod6: it was quite something to behold. here's a lady, clinging to breath, hardly moves, then gets up and fights to young women.
mod6: i think the bed alarm threw her into a rage. the thing started going off like a UPS alarm.
mod6: then it was back to night-night.
mod6: felt so bad for the young lady. it wasn't a hard punch or anything... but still. lol.
mod6: well, she was sleeping all day on saturday. then for a moment, she woke up, got pissed off, tried to get out of bed, fell down. then wrestled two nurses, and sucker punched one in the face.
mircea_popescu: there is that.
mod6: yeah, she's in hospice now. they're keeping her pretty comfortable.
mod6: i may write up something on my website, or send something to qntra
mod6: might give that a try tomorrow
mod6: i'd like to audit one of these fgs soon too.
mod6: when i start actually doing somethings, i'll take some pics.
mod6: looking forward to getting into this stuff a bit.
asciilifeform: ( there is unfortunately no such thing as a serial port that eats arbitrary baud rates. )
asciilifeform: if your dev board crystal is a power-of-2 multiple of your baud rate -- you're ok, just gotta change the divisor
asciilifeform: you may recognize the idiom -- it's a divisor by 128.
mod6: i did get that xilinx platform cable usb deal in the mail too.
asciilifeform: mod6: if you want to talk to a ttl-usb serial dongle, you gotta match one of the classical baud rates, or you get rubbish (and not the desired rubbish, either, but patterned rubbish -- or nothing at all) ☟︎
mod6: yeah, not sure if this one is ok...
asciilifeform: mod6: you could, but be mindful of the crystal
mod6: i was thinking about taking my xilinx board and seeing if I can throw your fg-genesis on there.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i deem http://trilema.com/2017/the-lordship-list-fourth-year/ a done deal ; trinque plox to update deedbot to reflect. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: a good chunk of the pain in this kind of work is the ~total lack of anything like the customary debugger. ( that, and the constraints of the medium - the very palpable differences between fpga and actual asic, but even in the latter there are physical delays )
asciilifeform: and will give you a little ability to debug (i hesitate to use the word)
asciilifeform: best to think of it as 'in iron', rather than 'in verilog', other ways to specify the same circuit, get you same result.
asciilifeform: i recommend to study very carefully the diagrams that give examples of what gates particular snippets actually get synthed into, and why
asciilifeform: especially given as it is not quite so, and various sections have 'triggers' (particular signals that cause them to 'happen')
asciilifeform: again i'll reminds, hard part for n00bs is not 'verilog' but rather the basic idea of 'program where all lines execute at once'
asciilifeform: mod6: it's an ok b00k. there is not, afaik, a 'great' one
mod6: thx for the heads up
mod6: asciilifeform: got that book from pong chu
mod6: i cut apart 50 .dat files. noodle on that for a minute. and these dickweeds want BIGGER blocks.
shinohai: I need a better SSD, these girls better step up their game.
mircea_popescu: i had one i couldn't touch. hence keep ssds in fanned thing
asciilifeform: at room ambient temp
asciilifeform: unless your environment is quite peculiar ( massively overheaded cage, or a satellite, or a pile of blankets?? ) typical ssd maxes out at 40c or so
mod6: a good test either way.
asciilifeform: i've yet to meet one that seriously warms
mod6: lol, disk is probably going to start on fire.
mod6: ok there they go
mod6: wrote a perl one liner to cut them all apart with blkcut... now just gotta feed 'em in.
mod6: im about to try to load up this offline phys box with all the blocks.
asciilifeform: ww2 micromanagement sim thing.
mircea_popescu: i dun know that one.
asciilifeform: last thing i played was, iirc, 'hearts of iron'. then lent the box to brother , in feb., and hadn't had time to touch it since
asciilifeform: i had it on my list, for what to do with that wintel box
mircea_popescu: we even have / had a guild there
mircea_popescu: which it occurs to me asciilifeform might enjoy ?
mod6: need to get the last few hours
asciilifeform reads 'o7', thinks 'brigadier general..?'
asciilifeform: 'babbage problem' is not escapable, it does not come from the poor machine, no. 'pebkac'.
mircea_popescu: first-cleanner. then-oil. then-light cig. then put out fire.
asciilifeform: aha. and if it jammed, the oil bottle is right-there.
mircea_popescu: there's truly no way to make it do strange things.
mircea_popescu: certainly in the vein of the above excel ooda.
asciilifeform: cranked arithmometers were spiffy, for their time, american 'manhattan' project ran on'em
asciilifeform: original was german thing
mircea_popescu: afaik the total run was a few hundred k items.
asciilifeform: likely moar existed -- thing was in production from end of '20s to early '80s !
asciilifeform: actually the 300k figure seems to refer to just 1 year.
mircea_popescu: and that was possibly largest.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even the infamous 'felix' only sold 300k.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think su ever delivered 1mn of any kind of calculating machine, since we're on it.