asciilifeform: ~same folx been eatin' it ever since. tastes, reportedly ( asciilifeform did not have occasion to try, but father -- did , for some reason it ended up in orcistan ) like low-grade beef.
asciilifeform: mcarthur's idea re protein shortage in occupied jp -- feed'em whale.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they will when the whale-eaters die. ( it's mostly folx in their 60s-70s doing it. )
asciilifeform: i thought 'crisis' is what the local derps spew when their national horse finally goes to glue
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand there's always been a 'dollar' (in the sense of best-looking-horse at fiatola glue factory) at any given time
asciilifeform: aand if 'coke' were to merge with 'pepsi', the # of drinkers of phosphoricacid-cum-cornliquishit would remain ~same
asciilifeform must admit nao that asciilifeform has not been following in realtime the tard squeals of recent yr of trumpreich, and so cannot comment on 'orange' etc
asciilifeform: made from junkyardwars. but i dun recall him claiming continuity with historic-anyffin
asciilifeform: not only this, but worse, the pre-existing selection consists of hollywood (e.g. the guyfawkes meme is not made from the historic personage, but from film 'v for vendetta', where rather different item in turn recycled from older meme)
asciilifeform: phf: i've also bought a period (msdos-powered!) paltron, will attempt reading the original pals this wk
asciilifeform: this is re the component-side, naturally. (flatbed is unbeatable for the flat side imho)
asciilifeform: prolly ideal photo would be from stitch of N 25megapixel shots with small aperture and machine-cranked slide platform. but i currently dunhave a machine-cranked slide.
asciilifeform: flatbed scanner for pcb aint perfect, observe that what it gains in res vs digicam, it loses in depth of field
asciilifeform: plan with the mega-photo, is that -- when i figure out how to stitch'em -- will make metre-sized poster for wall, to scribble on as i reverse the thing...☟︎
asciilifeform: 1 frame of ye olde 35mm potentially carries coupla 100MB of pad.
asciilifeform: ( for instance, expose 2 overlapping films using spinthariscope. separate the films, and on each end extract pad bits via programmable lcd diffraction grate, where each grate pattern is determined by output of prev. )
asciilifeform: while on subj, i suspect that the pill for ye olde http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-03#1394833 puzzler, if indeed one can exist, lies in some variation on chemical photography. ( observe that there is no known means of observing the latent image in silver nitrate without developing the film )☝︎
asciilifeform: ( possibly even out of 10,000 $ of ccd )
asciilifeform: 100 $ of largeformat b&w + enlarger beats shit out of 1000 $ of ccd...
asciilifeform 'moving backwards in time' technologically in other aspects also -- about to do some old-fashioned chemical b&w, for instance
asciilifeform: ( and the only reason not from 2003 comp, was that i wanted moar bitness, back then, for address lines )
asciilifeform: thinking moar re the 'sense of time' thing, i suspect that my clock stopped where ~anything last happened~. e.g. i'm posting from a 2009 comp.
asciilifeform: z80 of course not only costs fiddycents, but ~still made~ , and so has been photographed errywhere, prolly even in zimbabwe. whereas there's maybe 50 'ivory' remaining total.☟︎
asciilifeform: density of 'ivory' is around 4x that of z80.
asciilifeform: 'ivory' aint much transistorwise by current-day measures, but at ~370,000 is slightly moar than its contemporary i386, and defo bigger than anyffing afaik that amateurs anywhere reversed to date.
asciilifeform: you wouldn't give stradivari to glue to some fella who maybe glued chair leg or 2 some time last yr.
asciilifeform: ( rust remover variant, i could do with ~own~ hands , whenever )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-25#1883039 << iirc i explained in prev thread: i have a veerry limited supply of samples. and so, i'd be willing to share 1 with a commercial lab, supposing i had with what to pay, or the proprietor were serious re 'pro bono'. but not so excited to give to some d00d who uses rust remover and layers,whatlayers, etc☝︎
asciilifeform: if there lives a hero who knows how to merge the 2cm of ugh that dun fit on the bed -- plox to write in. meanwhile i'ma attend to other items on conveyor.
asciilifeform: if anybody knows ~what~, plox to write in.
asciilifeform: the microscopists evidently use ~something~ other than this piece of shit.
asciilifeform: http://hugin.sourceforge.net for instance ( i dun even know of any serious alt- to the thing ) . author apparently is militantly retarded, thing feels free to cut pieces from the inputs moar or less randomly
asciilifeform: ( even in most trivial case, flatbed with 0 distortion )
asciilifeform: in other noose, opensores photo 'stitchers' really suck.
