asciilifeform: chetty: if i recall, there is a gap in the road, somewhere in central america, that cannot be crossed by ordinary 4-wheeled motor

asciilifeform: chetty: a certain mr. kevin sanders, as i recall

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll post a pgp turdlet as comment, soon as i'm done destroying some battery holders here (mechanical strength test)

asciilifeform: why buy a dongle.

asciilifeform: i really can't fathom the purpose of buying a mystery meat hardware rng. if you're willing to eat mystery meat, why not use the vlsi turd found in current cpu? ☟︎

asciilifeform: as if it took actual thinking to build a simple analogue rng.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the code is intimately tied to the hardware (published recently as hand-drawn schematics, then converted to verilog by a mr. brad parker)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the system internals turned out to be an obscene morass of hacks, partly from being the product of drunken undergrads, but mainly because the machine itself was a very baroque edifice (a mountain of hand-wired ttl, with all the engineering compromises one might expect from such a thing)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: at one point, i wanted to build something modern based on the (recently) bsd-licensed cadr - but quickly learned that it is a fool's errand

asciilifeform: pretty good mechanical quality - after 35 years it needed a new spring and some oil; runs today.

asciilifeform: fluffypony: re: smart watches comic: believe or not, i use a (circa 1970s) mechanical watch.