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asciilifeform: and they would work in synchrony, but of course imperfectly - and occasionally at cross purposes
asciilifeform: that needed a squadron of a dozen or more wielders, to swing it at all
asciilifeform: imagine if the stone age had extended far beyond where it did, and man built gigantic stone swords.
asciilifeform: rather than mathematicized-about.
asciilifeform: decimation: the cure for this depression is to understand that a machine can be built to be -understood-. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mainly - moving bits from one place to another.
asciilifeform: laugh, laugh. but most of what you expect from your computer is not -mathematically- more complicated than 'hello world.'
asciilifeform: it isn't too much sweat.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: try, for instance, a bugless 'hello world'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: what, you can't?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: yes.
asciilifeform: decimation: mp added a c) if i recall: 'kill and bury the pyramid builders, blind the architect'
asciilifeform: 'If you're a defendant, you don't get to claim your fingerprints miraculously appeared at a crime scene... If you're a bookkeeper, you don't get to say money miraculously disappeared from your company...' ☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: if you create a 'heartbleed' - you are a вредитель. and whether you did it intentionally, given the impossibility of proof - does not matter. ☟︎
asciilifeform: even if there is no immediately visible 'smoking gun'
asciilifeform: this essay more or less explains why it is necessary to presume an author, and his handlers.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/WhyNoMiracles.HTM << obligatory
asciilifeform: and his handlers.
asciilifeform: decimation: who knew << the author.
asciilifeform: trivially extend the cable that connects laptop keyboard. but, why?!?
asciilifeform: loongson (and, afaik, anyone else) does not sell such a thing
asciilifeform: sat on top of the laptop
asciilifeform: no, the keyboard
asciilifeform: looks like a miniature ('happyhacking' brand?) item
asciilifeform: (largely unobtainable outside of cn)
asciilifeform: possibly 'loongson'
asciilifeform: what is rms holding in the photo?
asciilifeform: (re: 'mineshaft gap')
asciilifeform: a there, Doctor.'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: Strangelove: 'Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious...service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.' Russian Ambassador: 'I must confess, you have an astonishingly good ide
asciilifeform: ;;google mineshaft gap
asciilifeform: the whole fantasy involves a 'hidden fortress' in some shangri-la
asciilifeform: what kind of 'gulch' would that be.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: presumably one-way trip ?
asciilifeform: too heavy for what?
asciilifeform: with 'bash bug' inserted in a blank
asciilifeform: lol that turd reads like it was a 'mad libs' product
asciilifeform: talk backwards in time, or with 'parallel universes' - take your pick
asciilifeform: if zero -> break sr
asciilifeform: as far as anyone can tell - equal to 'c'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: https://www.google.com/patents/US6784591 << best lulz
asciilifeform: the console - another 30
asciilifeform: (it weighs ~60 kg!)
asciilifeform: but, one can only dream, of such a privilege nowadays.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've been saving that thing so that i can ask it to be brought to my 'peine forte et dure.'
asciilifeform: even funnier, (linked) - http://blackbag.gawker.com/those-interceptor-fake-cell-phone-towers-are-in-washi-1637721419
asciilifeform: http://bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php << not looking so alive
asciilifeform: ;;sell 1 "Symbolics 3620 Lisp Machine. Photos: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=51" at 3 btc must pick up in Washington, D.C. area, this item cannot be shipped economically. ☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;sell 1 "Symbolics 3620 Lisp Machine. Photos: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=51" at 3 btc must pick up in Washington, D.C. area, this item cannot be shipped economically.
asciilifeform: and, incidentally...
asciilifeform: (or, last i checked, a few years ago0
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you can still buy them.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: go to wash., d.c., look at manholes; sometimes they forget to strip the 'presidential' weld seals off.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: u.s. military establishment has an ancient obsession with kommunist saboteurs (tm) hiding inside manholes.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: no countermeasure to a turned over garbage truck on it, either
asciilifeform: ^ speculation
asciilifeform: http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/feature/The-Real-Reason-Selective-Availability-Was-Turned-Off_12739.html
asciilifeform: rather, there were two signals, one 'civilian' - nearly worthless, another 'private' - which was accurate
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: misnomer. wasn't about the present-day claim of switching off location data to a geographic region
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: nothing to do with this. clinton switched off 'selective availability'
asciilifeform: but, if i recall, wasn't, when first built.
asciilifeform: yes.
asciilifeform: !up MolokoDesk
asciilifeform: ^ was an actual problem with u.s. gps sats.
asciilifeform: actually it isn't an entirely useless thing, such devices can be used to provide experimental proof of, e.g., sr time dilation (yes, exists)
asciilifeform: build an adder out of GaAs ECL logic.
asciilifeform: prayer mill ?
asciilifeform: (a long gap, more than a few years, between filing date and publication date - means a formerly secret patent. those are only printed when the subject matter leaks.)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: here, have some fun, https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=pts&source=hp&q=national+security+agency
asciilifeform: if you don't know why you need it - you don't
asciilifeform: kakobrekla ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is used, for example, by bios prior to dram init sequence.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: intel and amd both have 'cache-as-ram mode', find it.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not the heat, no. the wait states.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what do you intend to do with the memory ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what are you working with ?
asciilifeform: as in, desk sized.
asciilifeform: better idea - gigantic heat sinks.
asciilifeform: simply not a very good idea.
asciilifeform: trivial, esp. if you can weld.
asciilifeform: if cold end is below room temp - can condense.
asciilifeform: regardless of where the hot end is.
asciilifeform: (why never caught on? answer: anything that can go below room temp. can have problems with condensation.)
asciilifeform: http://images.anandtech.com/old/cooling/kryotech/renegade/diagram.jpg
asciilifeform: nm, 'kryotech'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ever own the old 'koolance' freon cpu gizmo ?
asciilifeform: dub: has other problems also
asciilifeform: dignork: haha, yes, it's gone.
asciilifeform: dignork: which 'they'
asciilifeform: chetty: ukraine-fuehrt-zwangsarbeit-ein << arbeit macht frei.
asciilifeform: (at least 'wireshark' is phreee, unlike 'ida')
asciilifeform: just one of those things which there's precisely one of.
asciilifeform: afaik there is no serious contender for alternative to 'wireshark.'
asciilifeform: also lol, mircea_popescu getting his boxes off dhcp just today...?
asciilifeform: dignork: tcpdump...
asciilifeform marches off to do meatspace chore
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was spiffy, you oughta do more sheckleys.
asciilifeform: 'hedsoff.com'
asciilifeform: e.g. the existence and continued persistence of 'c', x86, etc
asciilifeform: generations of fools have shat in the soup, though.