asciilifeform: this is a lock-in play.

asciilifeform: so gotta keep x86/winblows relevant somehow

asciilifeform: danger of sane folks moving onto linux/arm (or whatever other arch)

asciilifeform: idea is, intel fears for its life, because x86 (and all the compatibility kludges that enable 20 years of crapola to run) is doomed.

asciilifeform: modern clock rate

asciilifeform: (actually there may be. fpga/cpu combo is a dime a dozen - xilinx made ppc/fpga cores for ages. but a modern pc arch cpu is something rather else)

asciilifeform: afaik there is no mass-market arm/fpga combo ic

asciilifeform: this is merely idiocy of the journalist

asciilifeform: (intel never once in its entire life published anything but a mockery of 'open source.' see their 'open' bios, for example.)

asciilifeform: in the case of the intel product, even if it is placed on open market - you'll have to wait for reverse-engineered loader

asciilifeform: but at least these were traditional fpga and one could (at least in the case of xilinx) use linux toolchain, traditional vhdl/verilog, etc

asciilifeform: decimation: built by nallatech (nsa contractor) and a few other outfits. thus, golden toilet prices

asciilifeform: decimation: for some years, there were fpga on the market that fit into an intel or amd cpu socket

asciilifeform: ;;rate mats 1 temporary voice

asciilifeform: !up Mats_cd03

asciilifeform: ;;rate Mats_cd03 1 voice

asciilifeform: where do you imagine us/euro enviro-whiners came from

asciilifeform: decimation: wreckers << brought up because of brits blaming russian agents for 'discounting our wonderful renewable energy potential'

asciilifeform: (that, and ice)

asciilifeform: (they still seemed to do so)

asciilifeform: afaik this was to keep co2 crystals from covering everything

asciilifeform: *handle

asciilifeform: benkay: i once worked with laboratory (-80C) units that didn't. a pump moved the cold air to reservoir when you turned the handle. room air pumped in, door opens. reverse when close hadle.

asciilifeform: ('absorption' type fridge fueled with the bugger's own fat would be considerably more efficient. but for some reason he did not suggest this variant.)

asciilifeform: '...the machine I would most like to develop is a pedal powered refrigerator and possibly freezer.'

asciilifeform: https://musingsonentropy.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/the-killcap-refrigerator-working-title

asciilifeform: cry later:

asciilifeform: laugh now

asciilifeform: fridge.

asciilifeform: guess the hand-cranked spamatron operator grew tired

asciilifeform: well it was dead earlier today

asciilifeform: what kind of turdmeister asks for 1/4 btc ?!

asciilifeform: benkay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_people

asciilifeform: 'Perhaps the Russians are worried about our huge wind and solar potential, and have infiltrated the UK Government.' << lol. wreckers.

asciilifeform: pankkake: e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5swOZ1EYk

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not afaik

asciilifeform: pankkake, BingoBoingo: https://vimeo.com/68401939

asciilifeform: helps when window moves.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: birds ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: another smoking disk ?

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/mpex.co

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDvikAG7cD8#t=15 << 4-cycle petrol engine built from that fridge's compressor.

asciilifeform: my neighbour - rebuilds '40s-'50s amer cars.

asciilifeform: energy cost is a design parameter at the time of design - not now.

asciilifeform: redesign. result -> cruddy kludge

asciilifeform: result - tolerances fail, film - snaps

asciilifeform: couldn't get german steel for the part where the film stretches taught

asciilifeform: e.g. my father was once employed to reverse-engineer movie projectors

asciilifeform: and largely came from lack of necessaries

asciilifeform: crappy soviet hardware is very real

asciilifeform wonders in what western country you can buy a fridge that runs for 50 years. for $500? 5000, 50,000 ?

asciilifeform thinks plenty of folks are grossly misinformed re: soviet hardware.

asciilifeform: plenty of comments, in the spirit, 'mine's built '65 and runs.'

asciilifeform: caption, among other things 'ran for 40 yrs.'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://clubs.ya.ru/4611686018427388682/replies.xml?item_no=24517 << 'saratov' fridge. 93 Wt. cost: 76 rub. date of manuf.: 1969.

asciilifeform: 'war - the mother of all things'

asciilifeform: war chest is there, to everyone's satisfaction, i imagine

asciilifeform remembers 'fucked company'

asciilifeform: 'dead pool' ?

asciilifeform: mp has bank now?!

asciilifeform dug in ancient engine amidst mosquito clouds, tired

asciilifeform: nm bad reading

asciilifeform: (suddenly you're going over bezzlar paperwork with magnifying glass)

asciilifeform: proving that one holds shares on fiat exchange might be energy-intensive

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: decimation: the middle kingdom != la serenissima. they'll be buying rice with paper yuans.

asciilifeform: ditto taiwan

asciilifeform: not sure how long singapore will last as other than chinese colony after u.s. navy is unplugged

asciilifeform: aye

asciilifeform: if you could build a singapore there, that's another matter.

asciilifeform: otherwise it's a pisshole. (try finding an industrial vendor who will even ship there)

asciilifeform: decimation: it's only strategic value is as 'unsinkable ship'

asciilifeform: because american factory gurlz want toilet breaks, health care!, etc ☟︎

asciilifeform: e.g. i can get pcbs made here. it just costs 35x what it does in shanghai.

asciilifeform: u.s. running on fumes.

asciilifeform: fuel that's been burned.

asciilifeform: whereas u.s. (or moscow today) 'office plankton' is... ground state.

asciilifeform: let's take the liberty of abusing thermodynamics term, and say this is 'fuel'

asciilifeform: - that being, six generations of people willing to work into the grave for a cup of rice ☟︎

asciilifeform: japan jumped the gap - why? because they had the 'natural resource' ☟︎

asciilifeform: and 100 yrs. of infrastructure.

asciilifeform: get 50 rail cars of synthesis-grade nitric acid with brain.

asciilifeform: try mine uranium, tantalum, with brainpower

asciilifeform: industrial civilization doesn't get birthed from coffee shop (as discussed in one of mp's essays?)

asciilifeform: decimation: go build a MOSFET with... brainpower

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-madness-of-president-putin.html << herr orlov on pussyriot etc

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: ...?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the two chaps with the toothbrush, aye

asciilifeform lol just got back from molestation

asciilifeform: going back to russia/industry: according to 'hardcore' russian folks, the west deprived the nation of crucial natural resource - one still abundant in, e.g. china. of course they aren't talking about lanthanides, but... girls who will birth half a dozen kids and work in factory without toilet breaks

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: the kind who 'dies just once'

asciilifeform: ask mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my understanding - fellow with a contract on his head should perhaps sleep with rifle. the one without contract - with girl. whether 4kw fridge, bk0010, etc. is batshit - or genius - depends on which box russia sits in

asciilifeform: decimation: because last i checked, the entire place converts to tajikistan in <100yrs.

asciilifeform: *or

asciilifeform: decimation: with our without dar al islam ?

asciilifeform wonders how applies to china, ought to ask the folks in the know