asciilifeform: decimation: i decided, and then some time later came to believe that was wrong - and it was too late.

asciilifeform: put it this way. either you're a grown man and can pick up 50kg like feather - or - you're a cripple, and someone hangs around who can pick up -you- (to put in bedpan) - and this person will carry your display.

asciilifeform: who cares what their display weighs? how often, it moves !?

asciilifeform also saw this ☟︎

asciilifeform: not that it makes more than a few pennies' difference to anyone

asciilifeform: rs232, mostly

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: the phosphour fades, and there is nothing to be done about it (besides a dreaded heathen recipe - boost the gun voltage. result: 'radiation king (tm)')

asciilifeform besides, would need 4+ of them

asciilifeform misses crt, but every time he buys 'amazing!11! well-preserved111! trinitron' - it's a faded turd.

asciilifeform: if it speaks asynchronous serial (and what doesn't)

asciilifeform: you can plug that 'ibm' or whatever into - anything

asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: trick. no typo.

asciilifeform: nice, slow phosphours.

asciilifeform: decimation: crt is what makes it worth having.

asciilifeform: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3101#mediaviewer/File:Ibm3161-setup.jpg << not mine )

asciilifeform kept an ibm 3161 in uni, right in dorm room

asciilifeform: why does it have to be modern-as-in-right-now

asciilifeform: modern ascii terminal << ibm 5250, say.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: more or less. don't plug the ethernet in.

asciilifeform: (defined here, http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.skewness.html)

asciilifeform: upme_boolcrap: calculates m. petitjean's chirality index for alpha-quartz crystal lattice of growing size. just as printed on the box.

asciilifeform keeps an irix box around.

asciilifeform: upme_boolcrap: originally phriend's, not mine. i merely de-c++ed, profiled, optimized, massaged, found where to run.

asciilifeform: upme_boolcrap: find bug >> http://pastebin.com/scRkxz9w << should occupy your newly-found mental powers

asciilifeform: lulz

asciilifeform: upme_boolcrap: lol, have some dignity in our honourable mass grave!

asciilifeform threw out a 50kg hp-ux (pa-risc!) box when moved

asciilifeform: hp-ux << lol!

asciilifeform: upme_boolcrap: mind you, socket for aux wives is just a start - you still have to obtain and install.

asciilifeform: upme_boolcrap: you need a replacement wife. a correctly specced one encourages installation of auxiliary wives.

asciilifeform: !up upme_boolcrap

asciilifeform: upme_boolcrap: where'd you put your key.

asciilifeform: 'programmers' is a ware in the same sense as 'food'

asciilifeform: decimation: not so much example for output (you can see that in 'man' page) but of where you might actually bother with profilers.

asciilifeform: decimation: (on 32 cpu. cost money, at the time.)

asciilifeform: decimation: here - it counted. ~5000 hrs of runtime, had to count.

asciilifeform: decimation: http://pastebin.com/scRkxz9w << example from life

asciilifeform: profilers << first, try 'gcov' - bare essentials, conveniently baked into gcc.

asciilifeform: decimation: not cheap << see http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3233532779857997@naggum.net.html

asciilifeform: decimation: like any decent hardware debugger for other archs

asciilifeform: decimation: lets you set hardware breakpoints, incl. on register access

asciilifeform: decimation: intel's ice port - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1441 (empty)

asciilifeform: decimation: yes.

asciilifeform: decimation: you're stuck purchasing an ICE then.

asciilifeform: profiler generally exists to eyeball what portion of the time is spent where in the program.

asciilifeform: decimation: requires, as in, to work in any logical sense at all?

asciilifeform: profilers << 'valgrind.'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: (unless it's 1941 and you're pissing inadvertent heterodyne noise to a waiting wagen on street)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can hide if receiving.

asciilifeform: decimation: linked 2 days ago here.

asciilifeform: hams use a 'flagpole' << think from this angle - any scenario where a gigantic antenna is a plus, it is also quite important that it be hidden from prying eyes

asciilifeform: right, 1m.

asciilifeform: decimation: http://www.fcc.gov/guides/over-air-reception-devices-rule

asciilifeform: decimation: antennae << unenforceable in usa. fcc (fed gov.) has final jurisdiction over antennae.

asciilifeform: carry away the earth in buckets, if you have to, in pant pockets - as pictured in 'the great escape.'

asciilifeform: nor are the lands sufficiently large then

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you can't build a bunker in secret from aerially-observing enemy, it isn't a real bunker.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: unkers ?

asciilifeform sorbothaned for nothing!

asciilifeform: (and glbse!)

asciilifeform: frozen in time, links to 'mtgox'

asciilifeform saw 'red star', thought 'what a soviet mining firm might've been named', went to check 'http://bitcoin.su.' lo and behold - there's one.

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why would chlamydia cripple a footballist ?

asciilifeform is embarrassingly ignorant of matters of modern sport

asciilifeform: possibly.

asciilifeform: (american football)

asciilifeform: i assumed football.

asciilifeform confesses he never once saw maryland play a game, despite living in 100 metres of where the (local half) of the games played out for 2 years, and within 5km for past 11 yrs.

asciilifeform: nah, more like the difference between being told 'let them eat cake' and eating cake.

asciilifeform suspects he is not alone in this experience here

asciilifeform: bell is used by other people to ruin your sleep. in exchange for food & housing.

asciilifeform: not sleeping because don't want yet is rather different from other people keeping you awake

asciilifeform: the observation was specifically about sleep (rather than the particular activity during the day, such as killings)

asciilifeform: #1 - you want, you sleep.

asciilifeform: in case #2, just as you might feel like it, the bells might well ring.

asciilifeform: etc.

asciilifeform: or, horse in mongolian plains, far from man, and cart horse

asciilifeform: same as difference between ordinary sex and working as 'crack whore'

asciilifeform: irregular schedule because you don't feel like sleeping in a given week is rather different from because phone rings and you have to get in a wheeled coffin because otherwise starve.

asciilifeform: not possible to release HW-1 with an open firmware due to NDA << anybody got an ion beam machine? 'gentlemen, start your engines.'

asciilifeform: 'HardwareWallet' << lol! they never get tired, do they.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: exercise and regularity of schedule << exercise, easy; regularity of schedule is a dream to me, on account of my profession.

asciilifeform: copper rounds << i thought almost all modern bullets have copper jackets.

asciilifeform: ( http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33346/33346-h/33346-h.htm#h2H_4_0010 )

asciilifeform: 'The Parrot and the Carrot one may easily confound / They're very much alike in looks and similar in sound, / We recognize the Parrot by his clear articulation, / For Carrots are unable to engage in conversation.'

asciilifeform: (woods' metal; destroyer of 'n-rays'; etc.)

asciilifeform: yes, it's -that- robert wood.

asciilifeform: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33346/33346-h/33346-h.htm

asciilifeform: obligatory:

asciilifeform: re: bat and banana peel:

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: he had a number of crackpot recipes

asciilifeform: which 'advice'

asciilifeform ianal, does not know if 'integral torture' on real estate sales would be permitted in usa

asciilifeform: though, if i recall, it concerned employment rather than real estate

asciilifeform: 'griggs vs duke power'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i recall that if your torture test ends up affecting one ethnic faction more than another, you get in hot water