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asciilifeform: thought gehenna was the babypit outside old jerusalem
asciilifeform: aye
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: likewise in ussr
asciilifeform thonk. flap, flap. thonk.
asciilifeform notices: bird is still working.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: 'webtv' was this '90s gizmo for the terminally sad
asciilifeform blows dust of 'webtv for dummies' (bought on a dare in college)
asciilifeform: us poor buggers with day jobs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think you will find that quite a few folks here will join you to party in Ar, as soon as we figure out what to eat there.
asciilifeform: (u.s. fuckwits, as a general rule, don't have the courage to blow up heretics)
asciilifeform: i gotta say, the fuckwits don't bother me (except on the rare occasions they show up to my door, spamming)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa, various brands of nuttery are pushed by the church
asciilifeform: i thought jp holds the record for the latter
asciilifeform: nato muppets, aye
asciilifeform: doesn't No have the world's currently highest tax...
asciilifeform sits dourly in gravity well
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: that was from an ancient soviet multi-parter
asciilifeform: i'm still curious precisely why vorhees wasn't sent to the wagen for satoshidice
asciilifeform: i do suppose that, if i start being worth something, i will no longer be plagued by little birds, but by fat vultures
asciilifeform: i look at the fscking bird and all i can think, 'ortolan'
asciilifeform: (there are at least 7 distinct cats orbiting this place.)
asciilifeform: (or for long cat. or any of the other local fauna)
asciilifeform: i'll leave it for the thick cat.
asciilifeform: finally resolved to kill & cook it, but it's clever, hides.
asciilifeform: bird is still working even now!
asciilifeform: ^ a minute or so of the action
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdB9eNpvG48
asciilifeform: lol!
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: will upload a few min. of it, have patience.
asciilifeform woke up from the noise, looked in window, saw wild cat tunneling (!) under the house. but then the cat successfully penetrated, and the noise continued - then found bird. on other side of bldg. cat isn't doing his work.
asciilifeform goes out to reset bird
asciilifeform: filmed it.
asciilifeform: apparently we have a kind of bird here which can crash - infinite loop. 2 hrs. now repeatedly flying into window, perching on plank (must be 100g of shit on it now) and repeat. and again.
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-06-2014#699606 ☝︎
asciilifeform: (electrical gizmo supposedly unnecessary in the civilized world)
asciilifeform: constant voltage transformer
asciilifeform: for instance, nowhere else do you find a concise summary of CVT (see discussion from a few days ago)
asciilifeform: laugh if you will, but i still use 'great soviet encyclopaedia' on occasion. (online ver.)
asciilifeform: or the rain.
asciilifeform: don't leave suitcase out in the frost.
asciilifeform: (reduction to practice left as exercise for alert reader.)
asciilifeform: and won't cook yer balls, unless you wet it.
asciilifeform: considerably cheaper than soviet rtg
asciilifeform: cost: perhaps $10k.
asciilifeform: a few years of 10W.
asciilifeform: suitcase, 10,000 watch batteries
asciilifeform: 60kg
asciilifeform: ;;calc 6 * (10 / 0.001)
asciilifeform: Li. primary 'coin' cell, non-chargeable. mass: ~6g. optimal draw < 1mA.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: gedankenexperiment:
asciilifeform: ^ for english folks
asciilifeform: http://spsc.googlecode.com/files/Turchin.-The.Language.REFAL.-.The.Theory.of.Compilation.and.Metasystem.Analysis.%281980%29.djvu
asciilifeform blows dust off Turchin's 'the algorithmic language Refal.'
asciilifeform: prob. 'REFAL' rather than forth, though
asciilifeform: ('molnija orbit')
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: probably one flying above your head as we speak.
asciilifeform pictures 'raspberry' on a truck with 'beta-m'
asciilifeform: (why? peltier element has piss-poor work coefficient)
asciilifeform: mass: ~600kg
asciilifeform: ^ electrical output: ~10W. thermal: ~200
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-M#mediaviewer/File:Soviet_RTG.jpg
asciilifeform: but dies on schedule.
asciilifeform: new gizmo has 2x the life vs. varient with, say, nickel metal hydride cell
asciilifeform: it's a kind of scam. 'showroom optimization', like glossy lcd panels.
asciilifeform: (optimistic)
asciilifeform: Li. ion -> ~70% of design capacity after 2 yrs. typical.
asciilifeform: crystal growth.
asciilifeform: rots on shelf. esp. when discharged.
asciilifeform: so, about the same life as 'macbook'
asciilifeform: they use lithium rechargeables, afaik
asciilifeform: lead-acid cell is good for half a dozen 'deep cycles' then it goes to the dump.
asciilifeform: weak point, as always - the battery
asciilifeform: bypass the usual inverter found on solar rigs. use solar, woman on bike, whichever
asciilifeform: you can get 'atx'-sized power supplies that run off straight 12v rail
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: set up to do just this, when necessary
asciilifeform didn't ask
asciilifeform looks to xformer, 'you're a loud little bugger, aintcha' xformer: bzzz me: could be worse xformer: BZZZzzz me: looks at neighbour's house, wonders what they did to dip the mains
asciilifeform actually has to give a shit about ground potentials now that his box is connected to isolator transformer
asciilifeform: who alive remains, who doesn't know this tale
asciilifeform flips toggle to 'more magic'
asciilifeform: 'what's been seen, cannot be unseen'
asciilifeform: needle marks?
asciilifeform: efforts to synthetically exploit this effect, afaik, failed, and the field was taken over by snake oil men (as often happens)
asciilifeform: ^ the infamous 't-shirts' experiment
asciilifeform: Russell, Michael J. 'Human Olfactory Communication.' Nature, vol 260, pp.520-522
asciilifeform: documented effect
asciilifeform: (circa 1972.)
asciilifeform: 'prng sucks'
asciilifeform: http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/random.html#item25
asciilifeform: see, for instance, no. 25:
asciilifeform: i heartily recommend the entire document, to any amateur maths types here.
asciilifeform: one of the golden age mit ai lab folks
asciilifeform: ^ as seen here
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/hl/hl.html
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bill gosper. same fellow who wrote 'hashlife'
asciilifeform: (not necessarily though fault of their own)
asciilifeform: expats, as a rule, are folks who ate more than fair share of shit where they came from
asciilifeform remembers the traditional american image of ussr, formed largely with tales from expats circa 1917
asciilifeform: !up mdev
asciilifeform: then turned, surprisingly, into something more like normal soap (probably they found something cheap & viscosity-enhancing to add)