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asciilifeform: but in practice, gadget that takes years to synch, is not very useful
asciilifeform: decimation: so long as it keeps up with blocks, theoretically
asciilifeform: there is no avoiding the final solution to it
asciilifeform: except that meanwhile i'm relying on, apparently, the profoundly retarded, to assemble b04rdz
asciilifeform: i have all of this planned out.
asciilifeform: tandemed with 74xxx
asciilifeform: pref. from mutually-hostile nations
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so we mount raw 'nand' from different vendors
asciilifeform: running various pieces on various chips
asciilifeform: gnarly though
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-03-2015#1050201 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trivial given that fr meade did all the heavy lifting and helpfully 'published' result
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-10-2014#867720 ☝︎
asciilifeform: well yes, that was the ancient thread
asciilifeform: normally when storage is scarce (or data set is huge) one cannot afford the waste of 'file system' that is not the same as the organization for the set
asciilifeform: i (and $maxint other people) did it on 'commodore 64' floppy disks
asciilifeform: https://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/double-helix-jacobs-ladder.jpg << helical
asciilifeform: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-hrrg1/figure-02-jacobs-ladder.jpg
asciilifeform: as seen in movie 'frankenstein'
asciilifeform: good illustration for student is the toy 'jacob's ladder'
asciilifeform: at stp
asciilifeform: iirc
asciilifeform: ~3kV/mm
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very low once ionized
asciilifeform: http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/russian-spy-laughing-execution-finland-1942 << also lulz
asciilifeform: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YqsTjmiifFk/UsH1OWSRt9I/AAAAAAAAIJM/o4k7Wr_o8Uk/s1600/German+soldier+lighting+his+cigarette+with+a+flamethrower,+1940s.jpg
asciilifeform: (rather than db as used in your traditional $business)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: for some reason i thought you were still speaking re: the blockchain!
asciilifeform: where you can 'ask each word' about something
asciilifeform: and eldrich db-like processors
asciilifeform: for folks who liked the 'twirl/twinkle' thread
asciilifeform: in all seriousness, 'associative computing : a programming paradigm for massively parallel computers' (j., potter, 1992)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: possibly. what's your application ?
asciilifeform: and if ssd, will get impedance mismatches during write if your db isn't tuned to match the cache
asciilifeform: except that if said disk is mechanical, you will get impedance mismatches
asciilifeform: in principle any existing db gizmo that can be coaxed into using a single file for the store, is quite ready to be planted down on raw disk
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: feel free to ignore.
asciilifeform: with eons of crud to wade through
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but as it happens - it's another mega-c-turd
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lol i didn't even say why
asciilifeform: ugh
asciilifeform has no plans to stop
asciilifeform runs reiserfs
asciilifeform: 'danger, 1,000,000 ohms!'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: l0l
asciilifeform: ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-agents-disrupted-bomb-investigation-at-white-house/2015/03/12/0eb74590-c8c4-11e4-aa1a-86135599fb0f_story.html )
asciilifeform: 'Two Secret Service agents suspected of being under the influence while striking a White House security barricade drove through an active bomb investigation and directly beside the suspicious package, according to current and former government officials familiar with the incident.'
asciilifeform: the Cs cannot be measured accurately in-circuit
asciilifeform: the other Rs that can be measured without removal are correct
asciilifeform: and this is one part. 'won't eat whole egg to see how rotten'
asciilifeform: and theirs... from mars ?
asciilifeform: except that my R is light-blue and japanese
asciilifeform: mine look quite like this
asciilifeform: so long as they don't float off the pads - no problem
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: placing is usually fairly exact, but they tend to float during reflow a bit
asciilifeform: left hand, right hand - one board each
asciilifeform: also sent to vendor
asciilifeform: under enough magnification to show that marking is correct
asciilifeform: fuckkuppy.jpg << mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, whoever else cares - R6, R16
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/fuckkuppy.jpg
asciilifeform: on the flip side, all the folks who laughed at me for slowly grunting to build own p&p fab, can begin to consider stopping laughing now...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i will
asciilifeform: funnily, if it were a digital device (e.g., the mainboard) it'd have probably worked
asciilifeform: wondered what was the catch - turns out, this.
asciilifeform: no one can offer this particular good for the advertised price.
asciilifeform: now mostly pissed at self for falling for this nonsense
asciilifeform: the deadline.' -- me
asciilifeform: but now find it very hard to believe that it will work to spec, before
asciilifeform: And was going to order another, much larger, device made at your shop,
asciilifeform: And now I don't have them.
asciilifeform: Not a month from now.
asciilifeform: 'I will ship them back, but I needed working sample units -this week-.
asciilifeform: ^ macrofab inc.
asciilifeform: on to prevent any future issues. If you are able to provide us a test procedure, we will be happy to use that to verify the boards before sending them back to you.'
asciilifeform: I will have our reels of 470 Ohm resistors verified first thing in the morning. I'd like to send you a return label in the morning to send the boards back, so that we can review the work on the boards and verify and replace any parts which are not testing at their required values. Additionally, this step would help us to determine what has gone wrong in the assembly and why your components are not operating within specificati
asciilifeform: 'That is very strange indeed. All of the house parts we currently carry are supplied by Digikey and Mouser, and are name-brand parts. At this moment, we only stock and only order parts from US vendors who are authorized vendors for the components we purchase. (This is why our BoM tool will often list parts as unavailable, even if they can be found at non-US or non-authorized dealers.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: filesystem specifically for blockchain storage << i spoke of this, right here in #b-a
asciilifeform: on the thing itself
asciilifeform: MARKED value
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is at least one part where all four instances differ by a factor of ~2 from the marked value.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: again, there is no detectable trace of a mistake in their procedure or in the physical board
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: nah through 'orbitz'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: and 'aerolineas argentinas'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'copa airlines'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lessee
asciilifeform: decimation: aha lol sure. these are going in my butterfly collection.
asciilifeform grinds in gears
asciilifeform also chumped, out of 75 bux. did not really expect the thing to work
asciilifeform: and the motherfuckers knew that, of course.
asciilifeform: but it isn't happening in time for c3
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: there is a reason why i am building own conveyor
asciilifeform: idiot does not deserve one sprat
asciilifeform: and for all i know the rest of the board also has no correspondence whatsoever to marked values
asciilifeform: i have no idea where they got them
asciilifeform: marked.
asciilifeform: the fucker is marked 470.
asciilifeform: decimation: again, that was NOT what happened
asciilifeform: but i had no climate-controlled space where it could fit.
asciilifeform: fella even reserve-engineered the controle console, wrote own proggy, would have thrown in the source
asciilifeform: so passed it up