asciilifeform: eh that's a christian hallucination

asciilifeform: a telephone pole ought to work, as its equivalent did in past centuries.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: clean. then, 'silicone' or 'teflon'

asciilifeform: i still can't fathom how one can own laptop and shy away from cleaning fan

asciilifeform: not the molded laptop gizmos, usually

asciilifeform: (sold as 'can of air' where i live, mysteriously)

asciilifeform: remove the fan, outside (e.g., on balcony) blow it with freon

asciilifeform: so, can't lubricate

asciilifeform: these things generally aren't built in a way where you can get to the bearing

asciilifeform: just get the crud out

asciilifeform: same

asciilifeform: bad idea.

asciilifeform: death for plastics

asciilifeform: from one pauper to another, listen to advice...

asciilifeform: first, 'freon', then - EtOH swabs

asciilifeform: you can usually extend its life if you open and lovingly scrub it

asciilifeform remembers when these had ordinary square fans

asciilifeform: aha, weird custom-molded turd?

asciilifeform: what sort of fan anyway ?

asciilifeform: (and lost a different set of parts)

asciilifeform: they also live in usa where others bought same unit ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why on earth from china

asciilifeform: http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/banana-problem.html

asciilifeform: phail

asciilifeform: ;;google banana problem

asciilifeform: whoa

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu will probably need to change gas mask canister soon

asciilifeform: !s falling walls

asciilifeform: s/certainty/faith

asciilifeform: and when they put down the stones, they generally stayed put.

asciilifeform: because at least the cathedral folks had some certainty that there will be a cathedral.

asciilifeform: except, even more of a test of will

asciilifeform: like the cathedrals of old europe.

asciilifeform: that is, you're working on something that you know you will not live to see through.

asciilifeform: at any rate, 'ozymandias engineering' is the concept where 'the one with the rifle - shoots'

asciilifeform lost in organiker dreams

asciilifeform: birch reduction?

asciilifeform: or was it leukhard-wallach

asciilifeform: that's the film where they had a proper grignard reaction ?

asciilifeform: nein

asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#Comparison_of_the_two_poems << for n00bz

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i call it, in my head, 'ozymandias engineering'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i rejected three entirely different designs (different as in the diff b/w dataflow and von neumann) that did not even bother describing. perhaps archaeologists (or the vultures) can get something from my notes.

asciilifeform: ^literal!

asciilifeform: 'ain't nobody touches my shit'

asciilifeform: yeah i get it.

asciilifeform: but i didn't behead him personally, so hard to say

asciilifeform: that every kid knows

asciilifeform: i know the legend

asciilifeform wonders what is his craft, that married, because it isn't programming - he actually loathes it with a passion difficult to describe

asciilifeform in the mines

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not one in ten thousand can leave the mines.

asciilifeform: it has a mark'n'sweeper now?!

asciilifeform: 'what those people will say once go gets a concurrent garbage collector that no longer stops the world and has real time guarantees (currently scheduled for 1.5)' << wait, srsly?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not dead as such. 'hacker news' runs on it...

asciilifeform: ah.

asciilifeform: what on earth were you reading?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: assuming you were thinking of paul graham's gizmo

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: arc was out ages ago. it was a turd.

asciilifeform: remember also that botnet will shrink rapidly unless you work to grow it.

asciilifeform: divvy it up how you like.

asciilifeform: (re: botmines)

asciilifeform: point is - even a wildly optimistic figure for yield gives you... the salary of a very skinny engineer.

asciilifeform: for owner.

asciilifeform: pyramids.

asciilifeform: it was eminently practical.

asciilifeform: (how can this be? cargo cult. easy.)

asciilifeform: at the very least, not a single one of the several dozen gpu-mining trojans i have collected from the wild actually works if installed as intended

asciilifeform: heterogeneity of gpu (plus the need to install chip-specific driver) means that gpu is not a practical target.

asciilifeform: old but applicable

asciilifeform: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Non-specialized_hardware_comparison

asciilifeform: gpu aha

asciilifeform: 'masochist: beat me, beat me! sadist: no.'

asciilifeform: by several zeros.

asciilifeform: on planet earth - much smaller figure.

asciilifeform: and on some planet there are 500,000 of them you can pwn.

asciilifeform: let's picture that these are all chumps who own asic coffee pot warmers or the like.

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: this is a very loose upper bound.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: using unicorn tears.

asciilifeform: this is approx. 0.7 btc/d.

asciilifeform: let's say 100 megahash each (very generous.)

asciilifeform: say you have 500,000 chumpers. what'll you do.

asciilifeform: gedankenexperiment

asciilifeform: and monetizing for any other currency - risk yer arse.

asciilifeform: because actually monetizing all but the most astonishingly large chumpnet for btc has become virtually impossible.

asciilifeform: back to botnet topic - we will increasingly see pointless acts of hooliganism ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the fella with 100 names

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: meowmix

asciilifeform: it's a bottomless pit of various things

asciilifeform: (for ease of inevitable anal insertion)

asciilifeform: in ru world, a small-arms-themed derp is often told, 'file off yer sights'

asciilifeform: ^atypically long example

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxWxKmbrcdE

asciilifeform often wonder, of the $maxint places they could go - they go here .why.

asciilifeform: ^lol

asciilifeform: wonder if he's come out of retirement.

asciilifeform: ;;google hipcrime

asciilifeform: Amazonfirehd: unknown lamer

asciilifeform: because correct side of ledger