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asciilifeform: unlike a purely mechanical pick'n'place (these exist), this one will have ability to return to preset coordinates.
decimation: ok that makes sense, would be a good compromise for prototyping. it would be damn handy to hit a key to make the thing move 0.1mm instead of trying to finesse it
decimation: so you plan on using it as a 'robot hand'
Vexual: doesnt hurt to have a look
asciilifeform: Vexual: how all of this is done in 'adult' factory - is very well known. (anyone who gives a damn - find university library.) but won't help here.
Vexual: a week in shenzen might be a goos use of time
asciilifeform: Vexual: been in factories << as a boy
asciilifeform: 'how to eat the airplane? one piece at a time.'
decimation: yeah the smallest smt parts are a bitch
asciilifeform: the pick'n'place cum pastelayer is the only cut to a 'gordian knot' - namely, can't have the boards populated at a genuine factory (prohibitive cost for small batches) - but can't populate by hand with acceptable yield (very fine-pitch components) ☟︎
decimation: otherwise wearable parts wouldnt' be a bother
BingoBoingo: I can only imagine what the pressure is like when the penguin only has a 3-4 hour drive
asciilifeform: can't have a part machined, for example, unless there is no possibility of making it to spec with own hands (pcbs with soldermask, vias, hard gold - fall into this category)
asciilifeform: i may have said it before, but i will repeat: s.nsa has a piggy (see mircea_popescu's site); every month, i invoice him for materials, get some btc. but, since i can't safely convert btc to usd where i live, i just sit on them. they will probably be buried with me. hence: s.nsa, presently, in practice runs on guess what (my pocket money...) ☟︎
decimation: I wonder if there is a subtle 'puff' effect from flex tube as the vaccuum is released and the tube rebounds
Vexual: building a railroad is pick and place
BingoBoingo: Pick and place is not a railroad
decimation: I can see how a flex tube that pulls a decent vaccuum would interfere with a x/y positioner's movement
decimation: yeah this is definitely a hardcore solution, probably higher quality than many pro pick'n place machines
assbot: Making a homemade metal semi-automatic rifle just got crazy easy | Ars Technica
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Former plastic pistol dudes may have an offering for the offing... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/making-a-homemade-metal-semi-automatic-rifle-just-got-crazy-easy/
asciilifeform: decimation: i don't have a cnc lathe.
decimation: asciilifeform: why not use a flexible tube?
asciilifeform: pictured item is a rotor. thin end gets ptfe ring (in groove not yet cut in piece shown.) rotates inside, surprise, stator (not shown)
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: Well, a bandsaw has rather controllable surfaces. A grinding wheel though if you work aluminium... turns into the bane of COmmunity College machine shops
TheNewDeal: I'm not saying it isn't possible, but I'm pretty sure I've cut the shit on a band saw, while lightly spraying some lubricant, and had no problems of ignition. That band saw was for sure used in cutting other things (not sure how much iron)
Vexual: cuts like a champ
TheNewDeal: I can band saw aluminum like a champ
assbot: Logged on 08-08-2014 01:27:25; *: asciilifeform recently bought a 'proper' lathe - no coordinates, just cranks...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: By 2018 Maybe I can commision a euphonium? I don't even want to think about how long a Tuba would take.
BingoBoingo: Expecting a plastic to survive solder beads?
BingoBoingo: Vexual: Well, it is hard to get a leuer lock without an expensive ass IV pump or heroin habit
asciilifeform: there are two basic things one can do when need part of a specific shape and size, and no other.
Vexual: is it straight thru inside? the outside is a piece of art
TheNewDeal: or you only need a very small volume?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://imgur.com/a/CmtqQ << blood, sweat, and... brass.
TheNewDeal: that cannot be a fucking cat
cazalla: how about a luckbox
xanthyos: "that's called a fish on a heater."
danielpbarron: yeah, but he also paid to have it advertised on Free Talk Live to a slightly bigger retard following
TheNewDeal: does he have some retard following of a half dozen folks scattered across usia?
danielpbarron: http://freedomfeens.bit/ is probably a thing
danielpbarron: i used to have a bunch of names
Vexual: danielpbarron: can you think of a dotbit site off the top of your head?
assbot: Need a number of lines.
danielpbarron: he got a bunch of people to pump up Namecoin which caused more miners to merge it, leading to the price to decrease
danielpbarron: xanthyos and I have hosted a few private tables denominated in Bitcoin using pokerstars software
danielpbarron: yeah i've been telling MIcon to do it for a while now
nubbins`: TheNewDeal this is a different type of public
danielpbarron: my problem with seals is that the admins are in denial that they cannot possibly ban their way to a collusion-free poker environment, and refuse to integrate the Web of Trust to allow users to control who they play against
TheNewDeal: seals is most definitely a scam
danielpbarron: like a rigged shuffle or something else?
danielpbarron: heh, why do you call it a scam, dub?
Vexual: i accidentally listened to that radio for a few seconds: if i ever move to us im stopping into beverly hills 1st to have my ears removed
danielpbarron: he's a shill for "climate change"
TheNewDeal: but he runs a scam poker site well
dub: micon is famous for confronting inaba like a frightened girl and running a scam poker site
TheNewDeal: You can call the man an idiot, but he can at least graph the natural universe at a much higher rate than probably 99.99% of people that inhabit the earth
TheNewDeal: Micon has half a brain, to say the least
mircea_popescu: not like it's a science. math is pure metaphysics.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> think about that for a bit << seems rational to me. where'd you put it ?
nubbins`: it's okay; i'm a man of the chair
nubbins`: Vexual that's because it was a dirty lie!
nubbins`: think about that for a bit
xanthyos: i'm antitheist. i KNOW there's a god and i'm resentful of his domineering father figure-ness
xanthyos: who does a weekly podcast, and is vehemently anti-wot
thickasthieves: <+BingoBoingo> So, Microshit has a new web authoring tool. This is one of their official samples... Admire the suck // lol that is a horrible website
Vexual: if anyone comes couging and spluttering in your direction, an airconditioned cab 12 feet up with a huge zombie mulching apparatus sounds like a good job
decimation: this is a rarity in usg, where someone says "I am responsible" and they are fired
BingoBoingo: Also yes, Pittsburg brought in the Seekrit service to protect a baseball game
decimation: I guess if you wanted to hire a girl to be a mentat such tests would be useful
mircea_popescu: similarly the one engine plane is very successful at being a one engine plane.
mircea_popescu: like when the third engine dies we can make a prediction about the plane's future. *that's* a prediction.
mircea_popescu: you remember, prediction is a term of art.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> if they did, i'd be making postdoc studies a requirement for my womenz. << But they'd all be older
mircea_popescu: decimation "mental ability" is a very poor predictor of performance
decimation: but that's not a whole measure of mental ability
decimation: there is no doubt a certain component of "IQ" that is measurable on tests
mircea_popescu: if they did, i'd be making postdoc studies a requirement for my womenz.
mircea_popescu: "predict a vast range of intellectual, practical, and artistic accomplishments. " <<< they don't predict jack.
BingoBoingo: <decimation> does whisky deplete the same metabolic pathways? << Not the pathways so much as conjugants. Gluconiduration and second phase is a thing.
mircea_popescu: <midnightmagic> It would be interesting to know what it was and what the doctor was thinking. << you know what it was and what he was thinking. it was his 28th hour in a straight shift and he was thinking "booop booop booop"
decimation: I heard a story the other day - a suburban mom commutes to inner-city Chicago to teach. She gets paid double what she would make in the suburbs - and at her school every kid gets an ipad for showing up for a set number of days per school year
mircea_popescu: perhaps. or there may just not be a better way to do it.
decimation: so a nurse who gave someone whisky in 1800 to recover from the flu was probably far more likely to be helping than the doctor who wanted to bleed or whatever
decimation: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119321/harvard-ivy-league-should-judge-students-standardized-tests << "But all of these hypotheses have been empirically refuted. We have already seen that test scores, as far up the upper tail as you can go, predict a vast range of intellectual, practical, and artistic accomplishments. "
decimation: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/09/malcolm_gladwell_s_10_000_hour_rule_for_deliberate_practice_is_wrong_genes.html << "For example, the number of hours of deliberate practice to first reach “master” status (a very high level of skill) ranged from 728 hours to 16,120 hours. This means that one player needed 22 times more deliberate practice than another player to become a master."
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: At a cost though. Azithromycin creates a lot of space for opportunistic infections becasue while fairly broad spectrum it is also very specific.
midnightmagic: It would be interesting to know what it was and what the doctor was thinking. It's possible there was a good reason, is all I'm saying. The straight "why ab for virus?!" doesn't seem like it was based on facts of the diagnosis.
BingoBoingo: Big conversation from this spring when my scrotum was in jeopardy, because I needed to make a lifestyle change and insist on a higher quality of vag
BingoBoingo: decimation: Amphoterrible B is a thing. Pretty much the null set of fungi aren't responsive to it, but... Pretty damaging to mammal cells as well.
BingoBoingo: <midnightmagic> we don't really know the diagnosis. there may have been indications for antibacterials; a differential may have been puzzling, and it may have been a precaution: shotgunning it << But a good number of broad spectrum antibiotics can actually hamper immune response. Methotrexate is a good example.
decimation: I recommend the fujitsu scansnap for a scanner, it is awesome
BingoBoingo: decimation: Well I keep a lot of info on paper anyways. Need tinder to get the flames ready to recycle drives.
midnightmagic: we don't really know the diagnosis. there may have been indications for antibacterials; a differential may have been puzzling, and it may have been a precaution: shotgunning it
decimation: what helped me was to edit everything in emacs for two weeks, with a reference card on the wall that described the shortcut
BingoBoingo: decimation: I might give it a try.
BingoBoingo: At this point though I may be doomed to carve out a Bitcoin Lordship in the Middle West seeing as I can't imagine Mexico or that Cartels wanting to keep the border open
BingoBoingo: Spz. I actually escape 'Murica for hardware b-a I now have to route around fucking Texas...
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: But when you are already suffering a viral infection... Unless that infection is GRIDS you are often never better prepared to slaughter bacterial hordes on your own.