asciilifeform confesses to complete lack of emotion re subj

asciilifeform: lel, d00d decided not to sell any moar after all ?

asciilifeform: you get used to room being bright enough to read in.

asciilifeform: the other thing about these lamps is that (at least i find) they are addictive -- after stuffing 2 100w-imitators into a fixture that cannot physically hold 2 100w edison bulbs without catching fire, it is painful to go back

asciilifeform: the folx makin' these things --- thought things through, yes.

asciilifeform: or to even adequately conduct heat again

asciilifeform: (they are not, before anyone asks, +ev to fix at home, you will not get the tin can with the heat sink closed to anything like the shape you want it to be to fit in any fixture)

asciilifeform: one reason is that the chumps often submit'em, for free, for 'recycle', and the lamp house gets to sell ~same motherfucking lamp N times ☟︎

asciilifeform: it's ~never the led

asciilifeform: led lamp makers are scamming folx left and right in entirely nonsubtle ways (i just unscrewed 5th dead '20 year life!111' bulb this year, none were older than ~1y) ☟︎

asciilifeform: at the very least, to sow fud

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it ain't a 'flawed' experimental design, any more than a land mine is a 'flawed' dinner plate

asciilifeform: (leaving entirely aside the validity of a burrowing animal as a model for blindness via overexposure to ~whatever~ wavelength of light)

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: possibly because if you were to measure how much uv got pumped into the rat eyes, the 'blue poison' thing evaporates

asciilifeform: oh and, if there was mention of uv cataract signs on the rats' corneas, i missed it...

asciilifeform: i grunted through whole thing in search of it

asciilifeform: ~0 of which gets through typical lamp dome, just as nobody gets sunburn from sitting near a window indoors. ☟︎

asciilifeform: (if i missed a 'and we had ~0-uvpermeability glass in front of the rat cage...' plz correct me...)

asciilifeform: aaaa guess what ain't in there

asciilifeform: with ~blue~ ? brighter blue from lamp than from the sun? really, srs?

asciilifeform: (why jam 1 user at a time, wtf) ☟︎

asciilifeform: nor wants to reserve stdout for something else

asciilifeform: this works when your proggy never dies suddenly without chance to flush buffers

asciilifeform: i have stderr for free, already knew where to find it, thx ben_vulpes

asciilifeform: but i'd like timestamps, rollover, and nonbufferization

asciilifeform: 30 yrs of open sores does not appear to have produced one

asciilifeform: in other lulz: https://en.wikichip.org/w/images/2/27/kaby_lake_%28dual_core%29_%28annotated%29.png << nsa core fully ~1/4..~1/2 of the die!?

asciilifeform behind schedule on earlier $items, sadly did not have time to further massage subj

asciilifeform ponders the puzzler

asciilifeform: gotta remember this algo

asciilifeform: '“Abu Muhammed Horasani” managed to escape from Reina by covering himself in his victims’ blood and used a taxi to escape the murder scene.' lolwat

asciilifeform: (if the mega-fat folx can successfully wheedle 'right to' 2nd seat for phreee, why not RIGHT TO charter plane???)

asciilifeform: today plane ticket, tomorrow -- plane

asciilifeform: (whole thing a riot. 'the slow winter', j. mickens)

asciilifeform: '... You go to work hung-over, and you realize that, during a drunken conference call, you told your boss that your processor has 32 registers when it only has 8, but then you realize THAT YOU CAN TOTALLY LIE ABOUT THE NUMBER OF PHYSICAL REGISTERS, and you invent a crazy hardware mapping scheme from virtual registers to physical ones, and at this point, you start seducing the spouses of the compiler team...'

asciilifeform: register containing the branch’s recent branching history, because in those days, you could XOR anything with anything and get something useful...'

asciilifeform: never work, but then you’d test it and it would be 94% accurate, and the branches would wake up the next morning and read their newspapers and the headlines would say OUR WORLD HAS BEEN SET ON FIRE. You’d give your buddy a high-five and go celebrate at the bar, and then you’d think, “I wonder if we can make branch predictors even more accurate,” and the next day you’d start XOR’ing the branch’s PC address with a shift

asciilifeform: 'I think that it used to be fun to be a hardware architect. Anything that you invented would be amazing, and the laws of physics were actively trying to help you succeed. Your friend would say, “I wish that we could predict branches more accurately,” and you’d think, “maybe we can leverage three bits of state per branch to implement a simple saturating counter,” and you’d laugh and declare that such a stupid scheme would