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asciilifeform: what can compare to slipping a 'drowned' video board (all-snow display) into a chum's box at night.
bounce: used a dual ppro for a while, though it wasn't mine and I had to give it back eventually.
fluffypony: bounce: you never had a 3DFX Voodoo?
asciilifeform: bounce: 2x40W << there was a gpu; also a massive scsi hdd
fluffypony: ;;rate los_pantalones 1 hooked a brother up with some cleverness
asciilifeform: (i worked in a lab in those days)
asciilifeform: anyone who wants to build such a junker today, why, who knows. but use a 25mL test tube for fill port (drill bottom)
asciilifeform: he has it bolted to a co2 laser, i think
fluffypony: I remember trying to watercool a peltier cooler on my Pentium
asciilifeform: this was a dual 'athlon'
bounce: what's in there though, a pI? how much heat does it produce?
bounce: that's a clear case of not fscking around with the cooling
asciilifeform: still had a small case fan in there, for the rectifiers, etc
asciilifeform: brought this to dormitory on a wheelbarrow
kakobrekla: wasnt there a 'yah' thing ?
assbot: I don't give a shit who saw what and who did what or who did who.
kakobrekla: asciilifeform i have build many but now i have a fan solution that is quieter than any pump.
benkay: yup starts with a piano designed for tingles
Mats_cd03: 'lady music' if benkay is a judge
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: actually, the only time i ever built a water-cooled machine, it was to get rid of the damnable fan hiss
fluffypony: kakobrekla: well, it's also a cheaper proposition - our market isn't only people-with-$$$, the BOINC/Folding@Home crowd need better cooling than 20cm fans in an ATX case but they can't afford / don't want to spend money on water cooling or mineral oil immersion
mircea_popescu: meanwhile brk-a is 190k
mircea_popescu: benkay that's a good question.
fluffypony: kakobrekla: that's fine, I'm not aiming to create a massive company that will be around forever, quite happy riding a wave, making money, and letting it wind down as we transition to the next thing
mircea_popescu is not a hardware guy.
kakobrekla: re openrigs . the whole things is a fad just like diy water cooling was a fad 10 or 15 years ago
Naphex: balauru inseamna pacatul, preotii recomanda rugaciunile pentru a proteja animalele din ogara
benkay: oh a Mats_cd03
Mats_cd03: usually i pester benkay, but hes probably wasted and tryna molest a deer in the woods
davout: moiety: that sounds a little dirty
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dildonics | Probably a lot of lesbians have degrees in dildonics. Sometimes a fag named TJ sneaks in a warehouse and frolics around in a pile of dirty dildos. What a dildo.
mircea_popescu: davout i'm not the one that lost me A FORTUNE in bitcoinz
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i once rescued a damsel from a situation where her living space consisted of... kitchen. you could shower over the "toilet", and there was a small stove nearby.
chetty: asciilifeform, that sounds like a murican label
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: xen, for instance, emulates a NIC with... promiscuous mode
mircea_popescu: moiety: voxer gives a location point on a map, thats even worse, i used to get "why were you not at your house?" << oi. ok that takes the fucking cake.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: well I suppose it's better than the "how come when you messaged that you love me you only put 2 exclamation marks when I put 4?" argument <<< you know, there's a relation between the welt count per butt and domestic bliss.
TomServo: and see who comes back with a better rating?
mircea_popescu: ah lol davout http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=102 , i had _exactly_ (down to the number) the same argument << maybe you two should exchange wives for a summer ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex here's a joke for you :
ThickAsThieves: he actually was a gundealer for a while
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i mean things with a pulse.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I have, then I married a vegetarian, now I have to do it on the sly
mircea_popescu: fluffypony there's a reason i don't read these things.
fluffypony: BigBitz: let me know if you want to come, you can take a turn past us and we can see how many bottles of wine we can get through
mircea_popescu: "An SSD is non-magnetic storage, there is not really any protection needed. Put a metal case around it and im pretty sure it can drop from the atmosphere into the ground at free fall speed and still operate once free'd from the metal casing" <<< pretty sure is magic!
asciilifeform: which one of you weirdos was hunting mice with a mosin.
BigBitz: Meh isn't the AMS conference a flop?
BigBitz: ThickAsThieves third time will be a charm then.
davout: mircea_popescu: my fucking log is pretty packed too, gotta buy a new one
mircea_popescu: the other blondie has a peen
mike_c: some altcoin miner has a bad system clock.
Naphex: everybody throw a btc idea out there, as fast as possible :p
ThickAsThieves: two guys plus a whole team they hired
ThickAsThieves: they have a plan to stay afloat
the20year: We located a potential property #7
the20year: Is there a way to ID with gribble if he isn't here?
mircea_popescu: not that the fiat venture circuit is any different. we had a lol over this @con
mircea_popescu: fluffypony let me let you in on a secret
fluffypony: I swear, all you need is a whitepaper and a few media interviews
fluffypony: basically everyone sends funds to a Bitcoin address, and then we convert that to SateliteCoinz that we give them
fluffypony: let's write a whitepaper and raise funds
mircea_popescu: should be on a sat.
ThickAsThieves: they can't hear you save-a-lot in space
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: davout: they're probably thinking they can just send a Raspberry Pi and an SSD up and it'll work <<< they shouldn't have to spring for a ssd.
mircea_popescu: it failed within a week.
mircea_popescu: speaking of cube sats : romania's first and so far only sat, a 10cm cube, was launched last year
BingoBoingo: benkay: So yeah, hangovers still a thing
BingoBoingo: Turns out it actually was a mouse and I had managed to dispatch it by stepping on it
mircea_popescu: Naphex presumably he's not about to run amok on a field shooting mice
fluffypony: Naphex: yeah I know, I struggled with the dynamics for a while before settling on "just poll the daemon"
Naphex: fluffypony: i know, a lot of implos i reviewex had very bugged tracking
fluffypony: (listreceivedbyaddress shows a "running total", of sorts, so you have to know what the previous value was to spot that it's changed, but that's trivial"
ThickAsThieves: and 1 paybee gets tabled to be revisited in a year or whatever
ThickAsThieves: well, in my opinion, i think the hardware business is the most sensible aspect, and then the mineotour stuff a nice thing to branch into
fluffypony: Naphex: doesn't matter, we're expecting 0.5 to address X, not to the "wallet" as a whole
Naphex: fluffypony: what happens if i senf a tx to multiple addresses you track
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: appreciate the input, I'll work a bit more on splitting it out
ThickAsThieves: you ask for $350k when $100k would take you a long way if you focused
ThickAsThieves: getting bogged down by a load of shit
Naphex: that might easily cause problems with a bad implo
ThickAsThieves: what i see is a nice little hardware business, with ideas about what it could branch to
Naphex: fluffypony: a lot of the cases are around how you aquire and track tx data
fluffypony: Naphex: if someone makes a late payment, for eg.?
ThickAsThieves: Hearn is either a devil, or has some kind of offense to people poking at bitcoin
fluffypony: Naphex: kind-of - a payment is only possible for 15 mins, so an address can be re-used every few hours
fluffypony: Naphex: not a chance
ThickAsThieves: this is a problem
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: if a country banned inter-crypto trades that would affect the exchange primarily?
ThickAsThieves: the whole Paybee thing is a deterrent
benkay: this is a red flag.
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: I would write them a strongly worded letter!
fluffypony: and a bunch of other companies
fluffypony: benkay: no - the GearTribe Group, has a 5% stake in OpenRigs
benkay: a salary from this group of companies?
fluffypony: benkay: I draw a salary at a group level
benkay: always a great idea
Naphex: fluffypony: yes, and add a buffer at your local bank
ThickAsThieves: could turn into a black hole of nothing
fluffypony: we could probably negotiate wire fees with our bank's Forex dept., but I still think we'd be paying a penalty