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asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: 'this spot belongs to Col. Smith'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even easier. most u.s. military installations have named (!) parking spots for the brass
asciilifeform: not to usg
asciilifeform: underground parking is only built when land costs something
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik - world's largest parking lot.
asciilifeform: why does everything have to run on a pNohe ?
asciilifeform: and, naturally, such an app could only work in btc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just as people who never considered becoming cabbies are now whoring in 'uber', 'whores around me' would probably work the same magic in its own field.
asciilifeform: aye.
asciilifeform: 'whores around me' << if 'uber taxi', why not this.
asciilifeform: 'girls around me' << ancient scandal. as i recall, it was censored.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2013#425691 ☝︎
asciilifeform: !s inductors
asciilifeform: dissected here ~2 months ago
asciilifeform: old news
asciilifeform: if insist on convenient, just go to enemy & surrender.
asciilifeform: know what else is 'convenient'? surrendering.
asciilifeform: as if spindle drives didn't swap sectors silently
asciilifeform: pankkake: any disk crypt scheme where the key lives on disk is nuttery
asciilifeform: (yes - you can fuck with the os of an hdd. i hope this is a 'revelation' to no one.)
asciilifeform: example of how to get 'shell' on a 'seagate' disk: https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/Home
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider posting a firmware dump of one such drive.
asciilifeform: nope as in 'installed guaranteed sinusoidal power source', eliminated the possibility even in theory ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: still have mains power issues ?
asciilifeform: one could even set up an array of these, in sealed box, for a given type of drive
asciilifeform: other variant: you can get a 100mW diode laser for 100 usd or so. zap the dies right through the package.
asciilifeform: the drive can even be sold after this, or used in 'civilian' application.
asciilifeform: other, 'gentle' idea, dissolve 'windows' into the eeprom with nitric acid. replace cover. when time to decommission, use a UV lamp.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: go blend a thumb drive, see what you get.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: blend << nope. enemy will fish out intact dies.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not hard at all! magnesium ribbon.
asciilifeform: (apologies to sir walter scott)
asciilifeform: Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native shell! / Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, / As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, / From wandering on a winblows hell!
asciilifeform: lives there a man who doesn't use nano? (or, 'pico' ?)
asciilifeform: benkay: stench still oozes through << of course.
asciilifeform: life in literal sense. little oasis in a parched desert of dry turd.
asciilifeform: emacs is life
asciilifeform: i'll pick up mein bier in person soon enough.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2014/riverwalk-a-proper-one/#comment-102409
asciilifeform: (why? ask them - not me)
asciilifeform: vax forever because... alternative is: winblows.
asciilifeform: decimation: 'minuteman' and many other american products still run on vax (in their 'modernized' variants!)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 100mW diode laser.
asciilifeform: incl. plastic variant
asciilifeform: exists, saw in catalogue not long ago.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'ratshot'
asciilifeform: ^ re: mil-style board construction
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55z_0BYb5is
asciilifeform: yes.
asciilifeform: no need for 'complements'
asciilifeform: ternary cpu was not only space-efficient (closer to 'e', more compact arithmetic representation) but considerably simplified arithm. circuits.
asciilifeform: all native russian work on computing was nixed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i might have mentioned this once, long ago. what killed? the decision to copy american machines to run warez.
asciilifeform: http://archive.today/kxP9k
asciilifeform: decimation: yes.
asciilifeform: but, 'remastered!'
asciilifeform: love how they eventually admitted that it was a '50s russian discovery
asciilifeform: that one.
asciilifeform: hard to get detector that is sensitive enough
asciilifeform tried to build the famous scotch tape xray
asciilifeform: aye, whack a tungsten target with electron. bremsstrahlung!
asciilifeform: xray tube hasn't really changed since it was discovered.
asciilifeform: 1nn0c3nt l1v3s!
asciilifeform: also mega-lol re: 3rd comment on film.
asciilifeform: lol re: baggage machine. used to push my knapsack through this exact type of box every morning.
asciilifeform: naturally, 'massaged' mosins, not the usual surplus market
asciilifeform: russia still fields mosins for sniper use
asciilifeform: russia produced millions of them, and they can be had in original crate (!) for about 100 usd.
asciilifeform: around here, most bolt action enthusiasts own 'mosin' - in virginal conditionl.
asciilifeform: old debate about bolt action vs. auto rifle is old...
asciilifeform: decimation: looked solid in the film.
asciilifeform: the dissector fellow ought to have known this.
asciilifeform: ;;google mu metal
asciilifeform: the gaskets are usually 'mu metal'
asciilifeform: for anyone overcome with urges, there's an emulator somewhere, if i recall.
asciilifeform: ^ moar
asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Autonetics_D-17.JPG
asciilifeform: plus shock mounts
asciilifeform: notice exactly same style of machined cavity, gasket, board.
asciilifeform: ^ first 'computer' my university got.
asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Minuteman_guidance_computer_(1).jpg
asciilifeform: were, in fact.
asciilifeform: (and screwdriver)
asciilifeform: it is only a surprise to folks who were never left alone with them
asciilifeform: serious lab instruments usually look quite like this on inside.
asciilifeform: (firmware)
asciilifeform: likely contents of sd: fpga bitstreams
asciilifeform: doubt the bodges are in the analogue nets
asciilifeform: decimation: not necessarily. usually these patterns are crapped out by software.
asciilifeform: http://youtu.be/1QBFIfKlvHU?t=49m56s << artist!
asciilifeform: note (e.g. at 47 minutes) the pcb-as-passive-component trick
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: women, wire, electrolyte. electrolytic deposition - with pencil!
asciilifeform: 20ghz is easy. 20ghz where you aren't simply picking up harmonics from your own logic - hard.
asciilifeform: because crystals cleave on symmetry plane.
asciilifeform: gem cutters cheat
asciilifeform: lower noise, cleaner stagger.
asciilifeform: take N independent adc, and stagger the sampling phases
asciilifeform: same 'scam' as my 100mhz scope
asciilifeform: but go make the die for shells with file.