asciilifeform: danielpbarron: the uboot source is pretty easy to build
asciilifeform: autism epidemiology << one way or another, iatrogenic. you can take that to the bank.
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: the actual jtag test points are small and gnarly, clustered around cpu. i'll get around to them some time..
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: pogo notes << shameful mistake on my part re: jtag pinouts. the soldered wires, turns out, actually lead to (useless to me) gpio pins, not jtag
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just as long as people act sanely, they're good enough << if they have no concept of the enemy, the latter can persuade them to 'act sanely' in a harmless - to him - direction, when it suits him
asciilifeform: rather than the thing about sportsmen
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: aha - i was referring to the earlier mocsny quote
asciilifeform: (related how? in context - missing from archive - of that thread, he theorized that the behaviour spoken of therein was due to the 'misinterpreted' thing mentioned here)
asciilifeform: when you are discussing a particular bullet fired by the enemy, rather than enemy per se, you may safely assume that it is not intelligent, and thus is the cock of particular rather than universal thread.
asciilifeform: which is possibly the only verdict more dire than 'np-complete'
asciilifeform: the thread-will-meet-the-arse-correctly-but-without-foreknowledge is called 'intelligence' and folks call any solution that calls for it 'ai-complete'
asciilifeform: decimation: a diddled die of 100 gates in a tiled matrix will do what, exactly ?☟︎
asciilifeform: but if 'playing fairly' and using the kind of semiconductors one could hope to produce in jungle workshop, you won't have identically-specced tileable bare dies either...
asciilifeform: but considerable step over transistor
asciilifeform: decimation: even if napoleon wrote that 'every soldier's knapsack must contain a fieldmarshall's baton', not everyone can be fieldmarshal
asciilifeform: but ended up being 'don't play with rotting corpses in the streets'
asciilifeform: to go with the plague thread - it was meant to be a summary, of sorts, of the pathology;
asciilifeform: wrote it specifically because BingoBoingo asked
asciilifeform: because i simply got tired and started to fall asleep.
asciilifeform: it was actually missing most of its intended 2nd half
asciilifeform: glad somebody got something out of it
asciilifeform: the funny part is that it is mostly the children of the less-poor (california, clustered around enclaves of mega-bezzle) who are dropping
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i spent my 30th bday last yr populating v1 rng (x4) under stereomicroscope. whatever you did had to beat that.
asciilifeform: aha assumed 30 or the like given 'odometer rolled'
asciilifeform: then again, also don't need voting for anything in particular
asciilifeform: if you don't have your $185k, you can't vote, because you are literally a bum << i've never seen, felt, smelled, 185k and don't expect to live to
asciilifeform was also out all day, and is about to be out some more, is tired
asciilifeform: and who among us (other than possibly mircea_popescu) would not rather do something involving a pdp-8 than what they did today.
asciilifeform: not compared to what i do for a living at any rate.
asciilifeform: ^ wtf. that doesn't sound unpleasant at all.
asciilifeform: (other thing about pdp-8 - ferrite bead 'core' memory. what is one to substitute for it, if avoiding modern ic?)
asciilifeform: and yes, unix is pretty good for a pdp-8, but unix is ultimately braindamaged when compared to what is possible.
asciilifeform: last thing i'll say about this for now is that it is a grave mistake to rebuild these starvation-camp machines as 'dawn of year zero.' these impossibly cramped programmable calculators are how we ended up with a braindamaged computing stack in the first place
asciilifeform: 'The backplanes contain 230 cards, approximately 10,148 diodes, 1409 transistors, 5615 resistors, and 1674 capacitors. Cards only used for interconnect were not counted.'
