asciilifeform: (i didn't care for the closed-source kernel mod)

asciilifeform: decimation: all i can say is that it booted. once.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 'octeon' doesn't have an audio card.

asciilifeform: decimation: libusb is not the loathesome part, but usb per se.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'strip' as in the util by same name on your unix box.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: gentoo is reputed to run more or less correctly on it. have not tried personally.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it also is not an especially fast box.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo has been considering using one of those "Edgerouter Lites" as a desktop system << you don't want to do this, believe. i have freebsd running, but turns out that mips 'strip' is defective (can't be arsed to hunt for the endianism bug in it, could take a month) and half the ports tree won't build.

asciilifeform: decimation: did you use libusb-0.1 or -1.0 to develop cardano? or are you just using the kernel mass storage driver? << it mounts as a standard mass storage dev.

asciilifeform: !s the camel has two humps

asciilifeform: or until someone puts it out.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's more of a forest fire, and will burn until there is nothing to burn.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for something consuming itself, it's astonishingly alive and kicking.

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2015/01/isc-biowar-kr-cn.pdf (scan) << usg use of bioweapons in kr war. detailed study.

asciilifeform: (the 'galt's gulch' in the book - had an invisibility machine.)

asciilifeform: incidentally, this is rather like selling 'superman's cape' sans flight

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i had no idea who. just read as 'some guy'. (skipped.)

asciilifeform: the author mostly resisted the temptation to add crud

asciilifeform: convenient dead tree collection of the material.

asciilifeform: there is nothing evil in it, and the first page is 'this is public domain material, copy freely' even.

asciilifeform: satoshi book << i have it.

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSwjuz_-yao

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it contains literally 90% of what i know re: boyscouts.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see song, 'be prepared', tom lehrer

asciilifeform: wasn't thinking of literal boyscouts, no (i know precious little about them)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm speaking as someone who went in for a 'computer science' diploma at an entirely unremarkable american uni.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and 'write an os', per the barest technical definition, is not high science; it's a standard 'boy scout badge' in school.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why this peculiar dick-pulling, why pretend.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i don't care what it was made of, if you did not write an os, you did not write an os.

asciilifeform: i find these especially infuriating.

asciilifeform: yet another 'os'

asciilifeform: !down OmegaOne

asciilifeform: meowmix is back ?!

asciilifeform: mats: then happily buy. back up periodically to actual disk.

asciilifeform: mats: if application is safety-critical, buy a series of samples and test to destruction.

asciilifeform: mats: basic takehome lesson re: ssd is that virtually everything coming out the vendors' mouths is a lie

asciilifeform: choice, if any, was when jumping.

asciilifeform: falling is flying until splat, yes, elementarily.

asciilifeform: http://www.genericradio.com/show.php?id=3e13162d58d2fe5c << ancient radio play based on the tale (which i cannot at present find)

asciilifeform: !s the lifeboat mutiny

asciilifeform: 'sorcerer's apprentice' ?

asciilifeform: more generally, when confronted with the mechanical 'guts' of something, this type of person will answer 'get this away from me, it is unclean'

asciilifeform: because god willed it.

asciilifeform: because all you need is, would appear to be, energy, and everybody knows that it comes from the mains socket.

asciilifeform: to folks unacquainted with basic physics, mechanization gives a convincing illusion of 'phree stuff 4ever'

asciilifeform: 'gifteconomy'

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: as a kind of baseline.

asciilifeform: i was specifically curious re: what a hawaladar in, e.g., usa, or eu, would charge to move 50 usd.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: wai, wat, hawaladars ?

asciilifeform: i bet they happily move the 50.

asciilifeform: people whose budget is $50 have NO BUSINESS... << anyone have an idea of what hawaladars do re: minimal volumes ?

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: you remind me of a legend, possibly soviet, regarding a fellow who took a part home from the factory every day for half a century, built airplane.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: may as well become counterfeiter if doing dope ?

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: cash found where?

asciilifeform: jurov: and, if above a certain amount (in or out) 'nice folks' will arrive with pointed questions.

asciilifeform: jurov: nothing keeps me from receiving or sending wires, but anything that goes in - is insta-taxable

asciilifeform: jurov: and not merely any fiat, but electronic, 'banked' bezzlars.

asciilifeform: jurov: to be fair, the 'problems' i have all stem from the fact of being paid, and having expenses in, fiat.

asciilifeform: if you're folding proteins - not so much

asciilifeform: if it all comes from the net - sure

asciilifeform: the cost of 1 petabyte of pipe exceeds the cost of the drive many times over << lol, wai, wat ???

asciilifeform: STRML: horseshit

asciilifeform: mats: the only reliable heuristic i know of is that a large proportion of null blocks will prolong, somewhat, the life of the device

asciilifeform: mats: it generally is not aware of filesystem, but only of zero/nonzero blocks.

asciilifeform: mats: there is generally a 'write-levelling' microcontroller in there, that tries to 'spread the pain'

asciilifeform: mats: the newer/denser the eeprom, the fewer.

asciilifeform: mats: each block (extant eeproms often have block sizes of 4k) can be erased/written 10-100,000 times.

asciilifeform: mats: often ?

asciilifeform: mats: depends, do you intend to write to it ?

asciilifeform: sureitdoes.

asciilifeform: ditto in 'emacs'.

asciilifeform: as www pages ought to.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: looks great straight from 'curl'.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: perfectly fine www page.

asciilifeform guilty as charged

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spur of the moment.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's straight out of my arse.

asciilifeform: and, i suppose, vacuum is a substitute for air. for a spell, anyway.

asciilifeform: !v assbot:asciilifeform.rate.gavinandresen.-1:4b3f2513a1f08c4238511a84a1561981b97b4070e6ed35638c5ac133dbfeff10

asciilifeform: !rate gavinandresen -1 with note: pathetic usg muppet. tirelessly schemes to zimbabweize bitcoin in the name of 'inclusion.'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this re: the merge-mining thing ?

asciilifeform: i, for one, would rather like to see the machine-gun taken away from the baby, and only then contemplate military strategy

asciilifeform: (and was it signed ?)

asciilifeform: lol, what did stallman say ?

asciilifeform: jumping up and down, to show that your legs work, is an example of what zoologists called 'honest signal'

asciilifeform: (from your own article)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see also 'stotting'

asciilifeform: !s cocaine toilet

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it goes very well with the usg approach to target selection. which is the 'texas sharpshooter' algorithm.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: wooden t-shirts << ru slang, 'wooden mackintosh', coffin

asciilifeform: 'changetip,' as i understand, answers two usg desires: 1) injection of tard armies into bitcoin, fodder for gavinization 2) the old, tired 'let's put some names/faces/palmprints/arsebook histories on as many btc addrs as we can'

asciilifeform: still a going concern, iirc

asciilifeform: incidentally, there was a time when usg did the 'strategic vc' thing more or less above-board. see 'in-q-tel.'

asciilifeform: ^ sc4mz0r zoo

asciilifeform: https://panteracapital.com/about