asciilifeform used this type of product many times, had tires repaired, never noticed this effect - at one point even drove for entire year on such a tire.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the point is to avoid cranking the jack in the cold rain, etc.
asciilifeform: i am now wondering if you folks have halon or what in there.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it's the traditional small extinquisher, meant for use on motor, not on self or passengers
asciilifeform: i and everybody else have it in my car, in the box in the back where the fire extinguisher etc. is kept
asciilifeform: (for non-u.s. folks - a product consisting of an aerosol tin with a hose and a pull ring. hose attaches to flat tire, pull ring, contents - a sort of rubbery foam - released into tire in lieu of air)
asciilifeform: 1LLkNuQQ2GkS5DmQzsTxCmErUH8ew6dnDi from qntra << nothing but dust in there
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i was speaking of c. valente
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ilkka is/was a finnish chap
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the one who wrote the 'hugo awards' thing
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: in the case of the woman linked earlier, my understanding is that she is largely funded by husband - a swell chap, from ru, of approximately my age, whom i also met once.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: some of these people may or may not get various pensions, handouts, etc. mostly - not.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didn't ro have its own national 'mmm' though ?
asciilifeform: browbeating friends, family, colleagues, fucktoys - into 'pleeese buy!'
asciilifeform: they work largely like 'amway' salesmen once did
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you might be thinking of academics. the folks i was speaking of, don't get grantola.
asciilifeform: get to earn approx. what a clerk earns, while doing this.
asciilifeform: a select few - who were able to con someone into printing, and a somewhat larger set of others (friends, family, sex partners) into buying,
asciilifeform: the remaining authors are largely 'wannebees' who wank themselves to sleep every night wishing for a 'minimum wage' income from their drivel;
asciilifeform: when the civilization that it was an ornament on, had died
asciilifeform: so the quick version is, english language science fiction -mostly- died long ago
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for extra plus lulz: i met this person in real life once.
asciilifeform: the 'no negotiation' thing left stage-1 long ago, and is worming its way towards n
asciilifeform: (1) was 'unthinkable' and (n) - i forget what n equaled - 'mandatory'
asciilifeform: ilkka kokkarinen, before being forced to choose between eating and blogging (tenure does not exist in canada?) had an interesting piece on the 'stages of progressivism'
asciilifeform: the only reason she is remembered is for having banned railroad, because locomotive was 'too loud.'
asciilifeform: when this was accomplished - there was no further investment
asciilifeform: decimation: not especially many bureaucrats ever believed that the rockets would fly. the purpose of investments like this was to bankrupt ussr, by forcing response in kind
asciilifeform: in short, save the headache and do it. someone here did not even own a soldering iron, iirc, and bought one for the occasion, and did not regret.
asciilifeform: you will also be able to log in to a unit that is not running sshd or telnetd.
asciilifeform: (i do not know of any simple means to 'netcat' these. they come out of ttyS0, as the gods intended.)
asciilifeform: you will also be able to see kernel messages as it boots
asciilifeform: considerably less time than screwing with netcat.
asciilifeform: srsly it does not take a very long time to solder three wires.
asciilifeform: a unit with defective 'uboot' can only be restored via serial port (xmodem)
asciilifeform: everyone who has not yet done this, will quickly find that at least one pogo with serial port is necessary - if only for testing own build of uboot.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at some point they will rediscover traditional eunuch-making.
asciilifeform: this sequence of events being a historic first, afaik.
asciilifeform: ru parachutists land on a drifting ice sheet, 100km from the pole, in full gear; build camp with self-contained systems, mains power, heat, etc. at -50c.
asciilifeform: ^ not the most detailed piece but there are many
