asciilifeform: the 1kg and similar nice thermal hedgehogs unfortunately won't work here (i run dual-socket boards, 'amd type f', there is just enough room for ordinary one)
asciilifeform: definitely not my experience, running disk arrays in repurposed broom closets
asciilifeform: did. at least, to the limit (after a certain amount they start to bake)
asciilifeform: i just moved to a (small) house, from a flat, and it is amazingly quiet (no wall neighbors) - and, turns out, this just makes the cursed machine seem ever louder...
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: for the cost of 8TB of ssd (mult 2x again for 'RAID' - who would consider use of ssd sans mirror) you can almost hire a savant to remember bits for you.
asciilifeform: (i use 'sorbothane' bushings. but this is only a pill against blatant induced vibrations, not disk noise per se)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: how do you like to silence disks ?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: where does the difference go ?
asciilifeform: as for higher pressure in the box - the air has to come from somewhere.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: filters retard flow. just the same as the catalytic gizmo on your car costs you horsepower.
asciilifeform: there was at least 200g of turd in there.
asciilifeform: helps to wheel the thing out on a balcony, prior.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: took a shop vac to my fans, just last night. this is why. (i try to, at least 1x/year)
asciilifeform considers donating to campaign to teach spammers 'the queen's english'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's the aggregate loss from the use of microshit? who can count the fallen sparrows ?
asciilifeform: funny thing - i was expecting to see more discussion of the elgamal thing here.
asciilifeform: re: ElGamal << lol, and let no one say that no one warned.
asciilifeform: defends it's ability to suck against efforts at improvement << a steaming pile of shit doesn't really 'resist' efforts to mold bullet from it. it simply is what it is.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik he was moving. course that was like a week ago << finally re-assembled computer. just now. it's like moving a medieval organ...
asciilifeform bids farewell to 6 mo. of uptime, prepares to load computer into truck...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: "never interrupt your enemy while he's fucking himself with a pineaple." << but, if he forgot to pull the pin, helpfully unbend the whiskers and pull it for him - so long as you don't have to reach into enemy's arse...
asciilifeform: fluffypony: see j. scott's 'the art of not being governed.' the crown is perpetually eager to bank the unbanked, settle the nomads, tax the untaxed, etc.
asciilifeform: after which, all sorts of folks crawl out of the woodwork, eager to pepper the landscape with just this kind of door
asciilifeform: jurov: discussion was about the logical next step re: rfid, where you spend money just by walking through a door
asciilifeform: it is, however, still possible today to walk around a city, buy food, visit park, etc. without phone.
asciilifeform: afaik, the only reason this crap isn't being pushed more insistently, is that most (at least in usa) people have already surrendered to an equivalent setup - mobile phones
asciilifeform: over here we already have rfid (near field, though, ~5cm max) to ride bus
