asciilifeform: isn't it a beauty? how did they even get the bloody thing going without decoupling caps?

asciilifeform: just look at that snes board.

asciilifeform: because you never know when the trash turns into treasure.

asciilifeform: i might like to release a proggy for them one day.

asciilifeform: incidentally, i wonder how many 'snes' and 'genesis' boxes are still in working order.

asciilifeform: need i carry on?

asciilifeform: !s tin whiskers

asciilifeform: (not visible to naked eye) 'lead-free' solder alloy.

asciilifeform: any really fine-pitched part.

asciilifeform: anything requiring active cooling.

asciilifeform: bga.

asciilifeform: notice what isn't in the picture.

asciilifeform: snes >> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/SNES-CPU-RGB01_01.jpg

asciilifeform: because wtf else to buy.

asciilifeform: story doesn't have a happiend either. i still buy'em.

asciilifeform: 'greed is good, greed works'

asciilifeform: 5 portables i owned with nvidia bga-mount packages, 5 died within a month or so of warranty expiration.

asciilifeform: ;;google bga defective nvidia

asciilifeform: ;;google bga defective

asciilifeform: and the ubiquitous and pestilential bga (ball grid array) deballings.

asciilifeform: other candidates include thermal death from plugged fan/vents

asciilifeform: as in, smoke?

asciilifeform: and this - was?

asciilifeform: let's guess - hdd?

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i'm entirely innocent of the xbox, so you may have to say what the cause of death was.

asciilifeform: hope to live to walk on it one day.

asciilifeform: China: U.S. Congress Renames Chinese Embassy Road for Jailed Dissident << looking forward to eric frein street in beijing.

asciilifeform: england had isambard brunel. usa has - steve ballmer.

asciilifeform: incidentally, the colonies (as mircea_popescu helpfully points out) never really grew into their father's shoes.

asciilifeform: so the anglos did what they do best.

asciilifeform: almost enough to be dangerous.

asciilifeform: old deutschland did in fifty years what england (post-newton era) could not do in 200.

asciilifeform: what's more, he's approximately correct.

asciilifeform: from the pov of a wilhelmine german, culture is where he is, and the english are a buncha pedos.

asciilifeform: aka the 'let's you and him fight' theorem.

asciilifeform: all you gotta do - stand an laugh. then dine on fresh meat.

asciilifeform: then the other fellow'll shoot it.

asciilifeform: tease the dog until it bites.

asciilifeform: never shoot the dog.

asciilifeform: (asciilifeform) what the anglos did to germany, will be remembered as -the- 20th c. crime... (gernika) what the russians did to germany after the war << gotta understand the anglo m.o.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo ferglubbssake write the waterfall likbez.

asciilifeform: revolting little buggers

asciilifeform: they like to set up little stands with 'atrocity porn'

asciilifeform: we have a pestilence of these in wash., d.c.

asciilifeform: falun gong?

asciilifeform: strikebreaker, yes

asciilifeform: or the gurlz in that restaurant in timis, yes

asciilifeform: if they were slaving in uranium mine - another matter altogether.

asciilifeform: slavishly carrying out the rituals of 'scientocracy' - yes.

asciilifeform: but it's still a laugh.

asciilifeform: now, the 'protectionist case' is not made here, because 'where there is a great birdlessness, my arse is a nightingale'

asciilifeform: and it shows.

asciilifeform: lab - 90% these folks, by weight.

asciilifeform: he gets his 25k/usd/annum, sends most of it home

asciilifeform: 'how did you get the sheepskin?' - 'washed glassware for advisor, same as the others.'

asciilifeform: typical speciment: chinese fellow, cribbed dissertation, 100% cribbed/shannonized papers, total and unambiguous waste of oxygen

asciilifeform has the misfortune of working with quite a few 'h1b' folks.

asciilifeform: 'Does this make sense as a career for anyone? Absolutely! Just get out your atlas.'

asciilifeform: ^ that one

asciilifeform: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

asciilifeform: straight to greenspun.

asciilifeform: for particular values of 'you'.

asciilifeform: public printery.

asciilifeform: http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/2709/varjag-2007.4/0_1ef2c_d1f5d8f3_L.jpg << again the 'janitorial' motif.

asciilifeform: 'it takes a brave fellow not to be a hero in the soviet army.'

asciilifeform: (yes, that's a phrase.)

asciilifeform: voluntary-compulsory.

asciilifeform: and yes BingoBoingo that's a mosin.

asciilifeform: loosely translated, 'red army's fine broom, sweeps the filth clean from the room'

asciilifeform: http://www.krasnoyeznamya.ru/gallery/rm_21_489.jpg << more relevant to the janitorial essence of the task.

asciilifeform: http://cdn5.img22.ria.ru/images/92068/64/920686406.jpg

asciilifeform: http://demotivation.me/images/20130529/qv4yvfj2tv42.jpg

asciilifeform: flies-from-cutlets separation, yes.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/archive/f/f7/20091130080539!Ussr0437.jpg

asciilifeform: where have all those literate folks scurried off to? the motherland calls!

asciilifeform: because if so, we're in a dire spot.

asciilifeform: and i certainly hope i'm not the only one with hands.

asciilifeform: but not cheaply.

asciilifeform: could, in principle, be persuaded to accidentally drop something

asciilifeform: i'd do it but presently i've all eight of my shiva-hands full

asciilifeform: decimation: same liquishit, different bottle

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the universe << nah, just rip out bdb

asciilifeform: but 'better to be rich and healthy than poor and disease-ridden', yes.

asciilifeform: a -good- solution by nobody - might have chance.

asciilifeform: proverbial example of 'big hand, small bounty' - don knuth and his typo cheques.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: bounties << let's ask more concretely. how much of a bounty would move you, personally, to unwedge 0.5.3 ?

asciilifeform speaks as a formerly very regular 'in anger' user of ipa

asciilifeform: quite like ipa.

asciilifeform: in fact, my main objection to orlov's gizmo is that it isn't huffman optimal.

asciilifeform: i sure as fuck do.

asciilifeform: also folks hate latin with squiggles.

asciilifeform: that is, wtf to do with a keyboard where most of the keys - you will never push.

asciilifeform: ipa suffers deadspace problem

asciilifeform: negative.

asciilifeform tried to subscribe, failed

asciilifeform: generally - 2

asciilifeform: so long as to correct key

asciilifeform: doesn't matter