asciilifeform: i'ma have BingoBoingo send me the retired board via snailmails, possibly we find sumething interesting about it

asciilifeform: it runs instrs from mask rom on boot, then loads my kernel.

asciilifeform: ok, let's rephrase, there's no detectable fw on rk.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's no 'fw' on rk.

asciilifeform: i'ma post a few sample dumps in a min

asciilifeform: cpu executes random instruction periodically, with lulzy results

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the idle rk that was to house lobbes et al, has turned up dead.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i strongly suspect that yer right, and the monkeys went 'eh, orcs, what's 1, what's another'

asciilifeform: oh ha stalin-era epaulettes etc

asciilifeform: is the reason why asciilifeform went with 'pack as much into ea. 1u x86 as physically possible' when init buildout.

asciilifeform: and these have monumental cost of transport, as already established.

asciilifeform: mod6: afaik that means 1u x86, given current state of art.

asciilifeform: mod6: what means 'full size' here ?

asciilifeform looked at erry available rk board on market in last coupla hrs, they are all either of substantially inferior spec, or cost no less than 3x moar per

asciilifeform: this complicates the design of same.

asciilifeform: it appears that we'll still have to construct a larger rk plant, but they will have to be physically racked in such a way as to be replaceable without taking down whole plant

asciilifeform: mod6: note that there is still not afaik anything like a candidate for 'rk, but better'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo agreed to house lobbes et al on his personal rk, until the swap is made, he will fill in the details when he gets back to his console

asciilifeform: mod6: i'ma ship new rk + a few spares to BingoBoingo ( who appears to have solved his orc customs problems ) , but the find is concerning in re the wisdom of installing 9000 of'em

asciilifeform: mod6: debug log is there

asciilifeform: mod6: currently much moar pedestrian concern: seems like we have 1st instance of a dead rk.

asciilifeform: if it was somehow diff from ordinary pediwik, this cannot be determined from the cache

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/9NDzd << cached. still can't make heads or tails of it tho.

asciilifeform: ( whether subj item is terraformable rk-style, is yet unknown to asciilifeform )

asciilifeform: afaik this is a 1st.

asciilifeform: meanwhile in iron noose, https://www.chip1stop.com/USA/en/view/dispDetail/DispDetail?partId=SOCI-0000001&cid=SOCIEB << chinese, claims to sell 24core arm box with expandable ecc ram holes. ~1.2k usd.

asciilifeform: danke schon, lobbes !

asciilifeform: meanwhile, uy1 - alive, temps within range, etc

asciilifeform: guten morgen trinque et al

asciilifeform: would like to , 1st, give the znc people a chance to sit down on rk, if they can be aroused to.

asciilifeform: i'ma 'drive' it till it 'makes sound'.

asciilifeform: mod6: my current hypothesis is that it'll fall down again when raid walk.

asciilifeform: i can't picture why, even, unless these people baked it from ecl or sumthing

asciilifeform: ( no eggogs tho, from it... )

asciilifeform: i have one that avgs 80C here

asciilifeform: mod6: sadly not weird, these run ridiculously hot

asciilifeform: still waitin' to hear from the znc-on-uy1 people, whether any want a rk acct.

asciilifeform: meanwhile uy1 cpu at 52C, raid card at 63 (for the latter, 'critical' mark is 70)

asciilifeform: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/ryJiN/?raw=true << limonov's ditty re fem pirate

asciilifeform: iirc there may have been sea pirate female, but dunno how credible the reports.

asciilifeform: ( and funnily enuff, uptick in petty criminality during imperial collapse appears even in apuleius's thing )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it aint as if there were no highwaymen back when marchlord

asciilifeform: d00d's a defrocked academic, iirc toils in 'hedge funds' etc

asciilifeform: ( back when it had mechanical platters, this was a ~monthly occurrence )

asciilifeform: ( it walks erry friday )

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ftr, the samsung ssds are pretty good : i have identical card here, with identical drives, in 3.5yrs of 24/7 operation it corrected a misparitied block ~once~

asciilifeform: plox to request accts.

asciilifeform: speaking of which, http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-15#1887330 ! uy1 folx, that means you ! ☝︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm thinking to switch off the raid auto-walk ( http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-16#1887553 ) currently, and set it going manually during a maintenance window that we'll announce after folx are seated on the rk. ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( and yep it's the defrocked physics d00d from old thread )

asciilifeform: meanwhile, in entomology dept, https://archive.is/OupVT

asciilifeform: hey last i recall e.g. karzai's $100m monthly 'hercules' crate was openly aired , d00d still on throne

asciilifeform: conveniently painted in diff colours.

asciilifeform: there's ~2 ~indistinguishable 'alternatives' to errything.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall, it's the magick land of 'which can of pepsi wouldja like, left or right'

asciilifeform: + http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-03#1260587 ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-15#1406177 << possibly thread ☝︎

asciilifeform: ... is it also 'hoped' that he'll 'rent out the space in his nostrils' lol

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo recall this ? in that coffee room.

asciilifeform: trinque: even in BingoBoingostan , asciilifeform had a hell of a time drinking from 'the mumps cup' to the terrified faces of onlookers

asciilifeform: Mocky: how did the work search go ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes prolly has the details.

asciilifeform: trinque: iirc in usa you get to pick b/w 'vaccine is the devil's work' and 'load'im up on errything, incl. some radwaste for good measure' ☟︎

asciilifeform: guten tag, Mocky

asciilifeform: like jail

asciilifeform: lol 30 m^2

asciilifeform: interestingly, they're building a tram (!) also. apparently the last lizards who disassembled the original washintonistani trams in 1970s, have finally croaked. ( new tram, however, will go strictly to/from the communal flats and the bureaucratic shitholes where 'employed' )

asciilifeform: but good % of the folx signing the leases, are graduates

asciilifeform: euphemistically labeled 'student' flats

asciilifeform: 4-5 rooms share kitchen/toilet/hall, same as in ye olde communist world

asciilifeform: trinque: the 'next turn of the screw' appears to be... american ver. of sovok 'communal flats'. they're building'em here, near university, to the exclusion of near errything else

asciilifeform: trinque: they're living in cardboard, iirc. new construction in specially-designated reservations.

asciilifeform: trinque: i was in BingoBoingostan when a 'starbux' opened its first day of biz. queue was iirc kilometre

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: may recall, at one time asciilifeform was infected with crackpot idea, 'why not buy old stone thing in bmore'. actually went on site, talked to the orcs. concluded that proj was massively -ev, couldnt afford to defend properly.

asciilifeform: they find, somehow , cement mixer, somewhere.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: observe how even to the poorest orcs, it dun occur to build dwelling from cardboards

asciilifeform: in ro the shoemaker did similar thing, mircea_popescu described in detail

asciilifeform: under whose decree a great many were hastily built

asciilifeform: + hruschev.

asciilifeform: m, favela )

asciilifeform: ( orig word was a play on трущоба ( slu

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that's called... hruscheba

asciilifeform: i.e. old brick.

asciilifeform: trinque: tbf i did not go to the favela. but inside the city walls, the worst dwellings were approx baltimore-type.

asciilifeform: ( substantial, as i understand, 'diy project', to make it livable. but some people -- did )

asciilifeform: at one time it was possible to buy title to old rocket shaft for approx what cardboard house costs.

asciilifeform: ( quite unlike, e.g. uruguay )

asciilifeform: most of usa -- cardboard.

asciilifeform: again i haven't met in person.

asciilifeform: trinque: there's rich folx living in old rocket shafts in nebraska even.

asciilifeform: with the brickwork forming bonus shrapnel.

asciilifeform: trinque: they scatter like pinyata.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly my model of 'available' is off.

asciilifeform: i've confronted various (nominally literate) ameri-folx with the brick litmus, was surprised at one pt how many had nfi ☟︎

asciilifeform: decorative -- only side-laid

asciilifeform: ... actual brickwork has butt-end bricks

asciilifeform: observe that it is very easy to tell with naked eye

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: we have these here; typically the brickwork is decorative

asciilifeform: i'ma leave the item in, tho, if mircea_popescu thinks it's a + idea

asciilifeform: re english folx, slightly harder ( but only slightly )