asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: NbO caps >> 'They also do not exhibit any piezo effect and have no voltage dependence, thus making them a good fit in coupling circuits.' << guess what.
asciilifeform: where was the stupidity on the net circa '88, etc.
asciilifeform: not size, no. size is effect of taking the higher cut.
asciilifeform: why it is built like this, ask hitler not me
asciilifeform: it is a 'polite suggestion' for the system, only.
asciilifeform: (the lever found on many such cards is not electrically connected to the internal flash!)
asciilifeform: sd card, incidentally, offers no proper means of write protection
asciilifeform: 2) -and this is the important one- -- imho these need to eventually run from rom. actual rom. or at least eeprom with the write-enable leg snipped & grounded.
asciilifeform: 1) initialize a new disk without having to use a computer and involving the rotten pc ecosystem in any way
asciilifeform: and at the risk of repeating myself, i'll say why it must boot and run from eeprom
asciilifeform: (my original vision for the 'pogo' experiment wasn't simply to have a cheapo linux box that runs bitcoind, but to have a box where there are only a few MB of weight -total- -- thus making audit into something like a realistic possibility)
asciilifeform: presently the only package of -source- i've succeeded in building into a kernel that can be used on pogo - was netbsd.
asciilifeform: all of the work i'm aware of so far uses the same 2 or 3 binary turds
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: i am chatting from debian-on-a-pogo... << if danielpbarron (or anyone else) has -built- a linux kernel of whatever description, in such a way that it runs on pogo - please wake me up & show.
asciilifeform: to make sure everyone can recognize the correct dope when his time comes, i suppose
asciilifeform: there was actually a policeman guest lecturer, with briefcase of dope
asciilifeform: scrip >> obligatory >> 'You load sixteen tons, what do you get? / Another day older and deeper in debt / Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go / I owe my soul to the company store.'
