asciilifeform: one can buy 'sim cards' intended for industrial applications - alarms, sensors, etc. where you feed it once a quarter, and the balance is spent when making/receiving calls or sms

asciilifeform discovered an interesting, (though probably not new) scam.

asciilifeform: (for victims of american school)

asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes'_screw#mediaviewer/File:Archimedes-screw_one-screw-threads_with-ball_3D-view_animated_small.gif

asciilifeform: http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Fluids/Archimedes_Screw/Archimedes_Screw.html

asciilifeform: dub: cutting edge ancient greek tech.

asciilifeform now wonders if said paste conducts well enough to be propelled in 'MHD' pump.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla has it.

asciilifeform: it is reasonably inexpensive and reflows beautifully on an electric hob.

asciilifeform: 25-45 micron ball variance.

asciilifeform: decimation: i use only Sn/Bi alloy, 138C. as described on mircea_popescu's site.

asciilifeform: these normally cost their weight in diamonds new.

asciilifeform: yes. and the cavity it turns in can have no more than a very small gap between the auger and walls.

asciilifeform: aye.

asciilifeform: correct.

asciilifeform: turned with a stepper motor.

asciilifeform: state of the art, it turns out, is 'auger valve' - think: small archimedes screw. ☟︎

asciilifeform: air-fart syringe apparatus works for what it was built for - chinese slave gurlz dispensing glue.

asciilifeform: decimation: that is, apparatus continues to shit after pressure is relieved

asciilifeform: decimation: likewise, major problem with 'drool' (actual term of art!)

asciilifeform: decimation: two reasons: air is a terrible working fluid (compressible!) making for very poor repeatability;

asciilifeform: they're crap, fundamentally

asciilifeform: decimation: i own almost exactly that one

asciilifeform: even refrigerated, the balls settle.

asciilifeform: it doesn't keep.

asciilifeform: decimation: yes. or, alternatively, use it up quickly.

asciilifeform: ;;buy 1 "Auger valve for high-viscosity fluid dispenser, any manufacturer." at 1 BTC

asciilifeform: decimation: mechanicals for paste laydown apparatus.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lithium pharma << as i recall, the therapeutic envelope is so narrow as to be practically absent - e.g. slow poison

asciilifeform: decimation: aye

asciilifeform now back to actual work

asciilifeform got back from buying a new, somewhat more gastight exhaust stack for laser - which now has its own 'outhouse.'

asciilifeform: damn what'd i miss.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not an argument 'pro', merely statement of fact. accept funding from bureaucrats - then eat shit when they command. elementary.

asciilifeform: on and painted with meticulous care.' (mr mold)

asciilifeform: carnegie mellon << 'Silicon Valley, unlike their Victorian forebears, do not realize that, if they want all this science, they will actually have to pay for it - themselves. Instead, they look at their tax forms and think: I gave at the office. But they didn't. They gave to scientocracy. Now, they need to figure out how to patronize science - or there will be no science. Just scientific Bondo, sanded to perfecti ☟︎

asciilifeform: camera mount with beer glass << if you stayed awake in 'intro to differential equations,' -- you can build this.

asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: nice little book, at least concerning the basics.

asciilifeform: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/21/cybercrime-conference-talk-idUSL2N0PW14320140721

asciilifeform: the 'other sauna.'

asciilifeform: ^ yes, it's a stove.

asciilifeform: that one. CO.

asciilifeform: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/woodgascar.jpg

asciilifeform: no, no. not liquified gasses. coal gas.

asciilifeform: they're still on the roads, i'm told, in pissholes like finland.

asciilifeform: 'Instead of obtaining petrol from coal by a complicated process, it's preferable to compel certain categories of users to employ vehicles equipped with gas-generators.' << incidentally this was what 'gasenwagen' originally meant.

asciilifeform: 'The water-cooled engine will have to disappear completely.'

asciilifeform: wrong in all particular points << carefully picked for this

asciilifeform: http://www.archive.org/stream/HitlersTableTalk/HitlersTableTalk_djvu.txt

asciilifeform: amazing! observation.

asciilifeform: true genius!

asciilifeform: 'Nowadays humanity depends basically on the whale for its nourishment with fats. I gather that the number of whales in the seas of the world tends rather to fall than to increase. The East will supply us with the vegetable fats that will replace whale-oil.'

asciilifeform: mk is a snore.

asciilifeform: btw 'table talk' is the 'fun hitler.'

asciilifeform: ;;google alois schicklgruber

asciilifeform: herr schicklegruber

asciilifeform: chimeras, we build later.

asciilifeform: what'd ya think? tanks? rockets?

asciilifeform: srsly

asciilifeform: Vexual: wtf are you building << cardanos.

asciilifeform: future.

asciilifeform: decimation: considerably finer. and stays vertical.

asciilifeform: decimation: traditional name for any robotic gizmo driven manually

asciilifeform: ;;google waldo robot

asciilifeform: decimation: initially this thing will be put in service as, essentially, a waldo.

asciilifeform: decimation: (and component trolleys)

asciilifeform: decimation: board.

asciilifeform: decimation: optics

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: for this application, i don't really need the stiffness of a traditional cnc rail set. but the '3d printer' kits are also unsuitable (poor accuracy, and they usually have moving tables.)

asciilifeform: decimation: i usually use ebay to source 'one of a kind' relics like this.

asciilifeform: steppers

asciilifeform: decimation: for consumer junk, sure. but these motors, alone, usually sell for a few 100s each.

asciilifeform: decimation: aye

asciilifeform: ('maxon')

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: swiss motors. same ones, actually, as in the machine i used to program.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-11-2013#377837 ☝︎

asciilifeform miser, cackles

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: old 'microarrayer' carcass.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: 100 usd. try that on for size.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: got me a xyz mover.

asciilifeform: ;;remove 21092

asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/07/fact-free-zone.html << more airplanewank, this time orlov's

asciilifeform: dub: 'pixar' render farm only goes so fast.

asciilifeform: http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/can-the-su-25-intercept-and-shoot-down-a-777 << airplane wank

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where was this - zimbabwe ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: somebody else's glasses, within 10% or so, are, i suppose - better than none

asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: why import. denture probably outlives owner.

asciilifeform always imagined that dentures must be serious business in the turd world, but never seen this before.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: his nailgun must've had empty clip.

asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: re: c64 SID: http://www.loper-os.org/vintage/parallelsid/parasid.html

asciilifeform: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-21/goldman-managing-director-found-dead-apparent-kite-surfing-accident

asciilifeform: and stencils suck.

asciilifeform: punkman: almost certainly going to build an automatic paste printer, however. pumping paste through a handheld nozzle under microscope is a misery.

asciilifeform: punkman: not actively, but slowly contemplating it when not doing other things

asciilifeform: looking for info/experiences with chinese industrial cameras

asciilifeform: dub: regardless of whether for pr0n or not

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu goodnight

asciilifeform: anybody here into optics ?

asciilifeform: obligatory: http://nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/E8C0827C6A36BD44C145B0011ABD54B5A9577022F1486911951958E4E870BB29